School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China.
School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
Environ Res. 2024 Mar 15;245:118074. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.118074. Epub 2023 Dec 30.
Exploring the effect of local government multi-objective competition on the transfer of polluting industries is of great practical significance for promoting the high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. This paper adopted the extended shift-share analysis method to measure the scale of inter-provincial transfer of polluting industries in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2008 to 2020. Considering local governments' economic, innovation, talent and environmental protection competition, the paper examined the effects of local government multi-objective competition on the transfer of polluting industries in the region, and tested its spatial spillover effects. The results showed that: 1. Different competitions had different effects on the transfer of polluting industries. Economic competition intensified the transfer of polluting industries, while talent, innovation, and environmental protection competition all restrained it, among which environmental protection competition had the strongest restraining effect. 2. Compared with the transfer of polluting industries, the direction of economic competition and environmental protection competition on the transfer of industries did not change, but the degree of influence was reduced, talent competition instead promoted industrial transfer of the research region to some extent. 3. From the basin level, government competition in the upstream region more obviously intensified the transfer of polluting industries; while from the economic scale level, the restraining effect of government competition in the developed region on the transfer of polluting industries was much stronger. 4. Both innovation and environmental protection competition had positive spatial spillover effects. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize the promotion and assessment mechanism of local officials, adopt differentiated competitive constraint mechanisms in accordance with local conditions, guide local governments to transform their development concepts, promote the sharing and common use of technological innovations, and promote the orderly transfer of industries in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
探索地方政府多目标竞争对污染产业转移的影响，对于推动长江经济带高质量发展具有重要的现实意义。本文采用拓展的偏离-份额分析法测度了 2008—2020 年长江经济带省际间污染产业转移规模，考虑地方政府经济、创新、人才和环境保护竞争，检验了地方政府多目标竞争对区域污染产业转移的影响，并检验了其空间溢出效应。结果表明：1. 不同竞争对污染产业转移的影响存在差异，经济竞争加剧了污染产业转移，而人才、创新和环境保护竞争均起到抑制作用，其中环境保护竞争的抑制作用最强。2. 与污染产业转移相比，经济竞争和环境保护竞争的方向没有改变，但影响程度有所降低，人才竞争反而在一定程度上促进了研究区域的产业转移。3. 从流域层面看，上游地区政府竞争更明显地加剧了污染产业转移；而从经济规模层面看，发达地区政府竞争对污染产业转移的抑制作用要强得多。4. 创新和环境保护竞争均具有正向空间溢出效应。因此，有必要优化地方官员的晋升和考核机制，根据地方实际情况采取差异化的竞争约束机制，引导地方政府转变发展理念，推动科技创新的共享与共用，促进长江经济带产业的有序转移。
