The mechanism of pollution-intensive industry relocation in Guangdong Province,2000～2009
广东省污染密集型产业转移机制——基于2000～2009年面板数据模型的实证

This issue of pollution-intensive industry relocation against globalization,at both national and regional scale,is becoming increasingly significant mainly due to its importance for policy-making and environmental regulation.Using the panel data collected from Guangdong Province,2000-2009,we examined the spatial-temporal pattern as well as the evolution mechanism for pollution-intensive industries.We found that the speed of pollution-intensive industrial development has largely restructured,following an ‘S' shape.The spatial pattern of pollution-intensive industries has changed from decentralization to centralization,and returned to decentralization,indicating an evident relocation of pollution-intensive industries within Guangdong Province.Panel Data Model was used to uncover the determinants of pollution-intensive industry relocation.First,the results show that the mechanism of international industries relocation is mainly determined through exporting,rather than FDI.As FDI is becoming more and more clean,the pollution in the industrial productions have been outsourced to the local enterprises with the dirty products exporting to the developed countries.Second,the strict regulation of governments upon environmental issues drives the pollution-intensive enterprises in the Pearl River Delta to be relocated;however,the relatively lax environment regulation in non-Pearl River Delta is by no means the determinant of the spatial pattern.Instead,the legislations of local government,on the fields such as infrastructure services,government capabilities,preferential policies,are found to be significant for the relocation of pollution-intensive enterprises.Third,the human capital is not identified as the determinant of pollution-intensive enterprise relocation.Instead,land use price is found to be important.In addition,we highlighted that Guangdong Province is still the ‘Pollution Haven' of oversea industries;the other parts of the province is becoming the'‘Pollution Haven' of the PRD.There is for stricter environmental regulation upon the process of industrial relocation.