Guided High-Quality Development, Resources, and Environmental Forcing in China’s Green Development

Zhengda Li, Wanping Yang, Chengjun Wang, Yuesheng Zhang and Xiaoling Yuan
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Zhengda Li: School of Management, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Wanping Yang: School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710061, China
Chengjun Wang: School of Management, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Yuesheng Zhang: School of Management, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang 453003, China
Xiaoling Yuan: School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710061, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: High-quality guided development and environmental forcing are two routes for China’s green development, and each has different focuses and outcomes. The aim of this study is to clarify coordinated mechanisms to reveal the reasons and determine paths for China’s green development. A research framework for synergetic evolution is established, and the Haken model is applied to analyze the different effects of high-quality development that guide resource- and environmental-forcing mechanisms. This research showed that: (1) the preferred route and key factor in China’s green development is high-quality developmental guidance; (2) high-quality development and environmental-forcing mechanisms are non-coordinated, and while the former might coordinate with the latter, the latter does not; (3) mutual promotion of high-quality developmental guidance and the resource mechanism was not observed; (4) the critical point coordinated value is 0.5686 for China’s green development. Eastern China possesses a relatively high level of green development, while the north, east, west, and central areas of the country still have much progress to make.

Keywords: green development; high-quality development; forcing mechanism; Haken model; route selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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