Author(s)

Yunke Yuan

Corresponding Author

Yunke Yuan

Abstract

Urbanization and ecological civilization construction are important goals of China's current economic development. This paper uses the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2007 to 2016, and uses the spatial measurement model to empirically analyze the relationship between urbanization, environmental pollution and economic growth, and verify the environmental Kuznets curve from the perspective of urbanization. The results show that there is spatial correlation in China's environmental pollution; after expanding the basic environmental Kuznets curve, a spatial autoregressive model is formed to verify the binary relationship between environmental pollution and urbanization, which is inverted U-shaped. The urbanization rate at the turning point is 58.38%; the environmental pollution among the provinces in China is not only affected by the environment of the neighboring provinces, but also the economic development, industrial structure and technical level will also affect the environmental pollution. All provinces and municipalities must rationally control the scale of the city, optimize the industrial structure, and develop a circular economy.

Keywords

Urbanization, Environmental pollution, Economic growth, Kuznets curve, Spatial econometric model.