Analysis of relationship between economic growth and environment in Benxi Shiqiaozi Development Zone

How to express and assess the coordination between environmental system and economic system is one crucial problem for the studies on regional sustainable development.The present study applies environmental supporting capacity (ESC) to evaluate the comparative coordination of economic development plans in a case study in Shiqiaozi Development Zone.The analysis conclusion showed the method is practicable.A new method for judging the efficiency of utilization of environmental system is also discussed in this paper.