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Environmental Benefits of Resource-Based Industrial Agglomeration in the Yellow River Basin: Perspective Based on Proximity Effect

resource-based industrial agglomeration,proximity effect,the Yellow River Basin

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In order to study the influence of proximity effect of resource-based industrial agglomeration on environmental pollution, this paper used a two-regime spatial Durbin model to examine the form of “Forces” produced by the resource-based industrial agglomeration among different provinces in the Yellow River Basin. Then the SLX model is constructed to connect the positive and negative aspects of agglomeration externality (positive externality and crowding effect) from the perspectives of local effect and spillover effect. The empirical results show that both centripetal force and centrifugal force exist in the neighboring provinces, which aggravates the spatial self-selection effect of resource-based industries. Because of the negative proximity effect, the geographical neighboring provinces have opposite effect on air pollution control. At the same time, the agglomeration of resource-based industries between economically neighboring provinces produces centripetal force, which relieves the self-selection effect of resource-based industries and causes the same effect of air pollution control among economically neighboring provinces. What’s more, while the positive externalities of the agglomeration drive the development of green technologies, which in turn reduce regional environmental pollution, the crowding effect squeezes the cost of pollution control. The polluting enterprises choose to migrate across the land, which aggravates the regional environmental pollution and weakens the positive role of industrial agglomeration in controlling environmental pollution. This is not conducive to China’s long-term ecological civilization construction. The conclusion of this paper shows that to strengthen the control and guidance of regional industrial agglomeration, especially to reach consensus on the regulation and control of resource-based industrial agglomeration in the neighboring provinces, will be beneficial to China’s environmental governance and the construction of ecological civilization.