School of Economics, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China.
School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Sep;30(43):96860-96874. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-29171-8. Epub 2023 Aug 15.
New urbanization construction is important for promoting sustainable economic growth in resource-based cities and can help resource-based cities achieve a sustainable development model with efficient resource allocation and green and low-carbon industrial transformation. Based on the background of the comprehensive pilot policy of new urbanization, we examined whether new urbanization construction promoted the economic growth of resource-based cities using 2011-2017 data on prefecture-level cities and the difference-in-differences (DID) method. It was found that new urbanization construction significantly promoted the growth in GDP per capita of resource-based cities, with a coefficient estimate of 0.1330, and this result passed a robustness test. The mechanism test indicated that new urbanization construction promoted the economic growth of resource-based cities by improving the efficiency of resource allocation and promoting industrial structure upgrading, with interaction term coefficient estimates of 0.1465 and 0.2929, respectively. Heterogeneity analysis showed that the policy effect of new urbanization construction was stronger in resource-rich cities than in resource-poor cities, significant in energy-based resource-based cities but not in metal-based and other resource-based cities, and significant in resource-based cities in the eastern and western regions of China but not in the central region. This study provides government departments implementing new urbanization policies with the results of a policy performance assessment of new urbanization construction for resource-based cities and feasible policy recommendations for the sustainable transformation of resource-based cities.
新型城镇化建设对促进资源型城市经济可持续增长具有重要作用，能够帮助资源型城市实现资源配置高效、绿色低碳产业转型的可持续发展模式。本文基于新型城镇化综合试点政策背景，采用 2011-2017 年地级市数据，运用双重差分法（DID）检验了新型城镇化建设对资源型城市经济增长的影响。结果表明：新型城镇化建设显著促进了资源型城市人均 GDP 的增长，其系数估计值为 0.1330，并通过了稳健性检验。机制检验表明，新型城镇化建设通过提高资源配置效率和促进产业结构升级促进了资源型城市的经济增长，其交互项系数估计值分别为 0.1465 和 0.2929。异质性分析表明，新型城镇化建设的政策效果在资源丰富型城市强于资源匮乏型城市，在能源型资源型城市显著但在金属型和其他资源型城市不显著，在我国东、西部地区的资源型城市显著但在中部地区不显著。本文为实施新型城镇化政策的政府部门提供了资源型城市新型城镇化建设政策绩效评估结果，并为资源型城市的可持续转型提供了可行的政策建议。
