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Modeling Pollution Control and Performance in China’s Provinces

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Wei, Juichang
Jia, Ruiyue
Marinova, Dora
Zhao, Dingtao
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2012
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Wei, Juichang and Jia, Ruiyue and Marinova, Dora and Zhao, Dingtao. 2012. Modeling Pollution Control and Performance in China’s Provinces. Journal of Environmental Management 113: pp. 263-270.
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Journal of Environmental Management
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Environmental Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 113 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.08.040

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The paper constructs a pollution control performance (PCP) evaluation model by introducing the norm of n-dimensional space. The PCP of 30 Chinese provinces for the period of 2003–2008 is evaluated based on the model and the factors influencing China's pollution control are further examined. It is found that: (1) China's PCP has improved rapidly but there is a large regional imbalance with the PCP of Eastern China being much better than that of Central and Western China; (2) to improve the level of China's PCP, government policies should consider industrial structure adjustment, restricting industry entries and increased investment in pollution abatement and R&D.