Research on Dynamic Monitoring of Coordinated Development of Economy, Environment and High Haze Pollution Industries Such as the Thermal Power Industry in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region

Jingkun Zhou, Pen Qi, Yunkai Zhou (), Qian Ren and Zhonggang Liu
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Jingkun Zhou: School of Business, Ludong University, 186 Hongqizhong Road, Yantai 264025, China
Pen Qi: School of Business, Ludong University, 186 Hongqizhong Road, Yantai 264025, China
Yunkai Zhou: Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Qian Ren: School of Public Administration, Hebei University of Economics and Business, 47 Xuefu Road, Xinhua District, Shijiazhuang 050061, China
Zhonggang Liu: School of Business, Henan University, 85 Minglun Street, Kaifeng 475001, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: With the accelerating urbanization process in China, the extensive economic growth model with high energy consumption and high pollution aggravates atmospheric environmental pollution and restricts the sustainable development of the social economy. The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region has the most severe haze pollution and the most acute contradiction between resources, environment and economic development. Based on the physical coupling theory, this paper constructs a coupling coordination degree model of the economy, environment and high haze pollution industries, such as the thermal power industry. Through literature analysis and expert investigation of the economic, industrial and environmental data of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region from 2006 to 2018, the coordinated development of the economy, environment and high haze pollution industries, such as the thermal power industry, in the above region, was dynamically monitored. The monitoring results show that the development level of the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region is significantly different, and the three subregions have not entered the stage of coordinated development. Moreover, since 2015, they have been in a bottleneck period of development and have not achieved a higher level of progress. The three subregions have different advantages and restraining factors. For example, the backward level of Hebei’s economy and high haze pollution industries, such as the thermal power industry, restrict the coordinated development of the region as a whole. Only by accelerating the high-quality development of the Hebei economy can we break through the bottleneck of the development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

Keywords: high haze pollution industries; economic development; ecological environment; coordinated development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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