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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Policy and Governance
Volume 12 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1446322
How National Key Ecological Function Areas Policy affects the upgrading of the industrial structure?--Based on the examination of the Yellow River Basin in China
Provisionally accepted- School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
The transformation and upgrading of industrial structure constitutes a pivotal task for the sustainable economic development, and its factors are also of concern to developing countries around the world. Unfortunately, there is still relatively little systematic discussion on the impact of environment policy on industrial structure. Against this backdrop, we have employed the multi-period differences-in-differences (DID) model to assess the impact of the implementation of National Key Ecological Function Areas on industrial structure in the Yellow River Basin. Our findings reveal that this environment policy fosters the advancement of industrial structure but does not influence the rationalization of industrial structure.Regarding mediating effects, we confirm the positive impacts of population density and the investment in education. Furthermore, the policy effects are more pronounced in non-ethnic provinces with better basic conditions, whereas ethnic provinces exhibit almost no effect. The policy effects are more significant in large cities compared to small and medium-sized cities. These findings enrich the existing exploration of the impact of environment policy on industrial structure. In addition, it provides a strong reference for policy practice in developing countries.
Keywords: National key ecological function areas, Industrial structure, Policy effect, Yellow River Basin, Environmental protection
Received: 12 Jun 2024; Accepted: 21 Oct 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Zhang, Luo, Su, Xu and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Huanqi Luo, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, Beijing Municipality, China
Chenchen Su, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, Beijing Municipality, China
Chen Xu, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, Beijing Municipality, China
Huijuan Wang, School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, Beijing Municipality, China
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