On the Influence of the Industrial Transfer on the Environment in the Central Region of China

The central region have introduced their own development strategies,actively undertaken the industrial transfer of the eastern coastal provinces after the implementation of the development strategy of the rise of central China. The demand of upgrading of the industrial structure of eastern coastal provinces,and the implementation of the strategy of the rise of central China,inevitably lead to the industrial gradient transfer. During the process of the interregional industrial transfer,whether or not accompanied by the transfer of pollution? Therefore,while the pollution haven of international transfer of pollution problems caused by the foreign direct investment and international trade has been studied,the environmental pollution problems caused by the domestic interregional industrial transfer in China must also be paid enough attention. Based on the Becker and Henderson's( 2000) classification of pollution-intensive industries,this article analyzes the transfer of heavily polluting industries to the central provinces with the panel data of 27 industry segments in six provinces including Shanxi,Anhui,Jiangxi,Henan,Hubei and Hunan in central China between 2000- 2010,and explains the influence of the industrial transfer on the pollution transfer,as well as the other influencing factors of pollution transfer.The result shows that there is the phenomenon of pollution-intensive industrial transfer in China's central region after 2004,especially the transfer of nonferrous metal mining industry,non-metallic mining and dressing industry,agricultural and sideline products processing industry,food manufacturing industry,beverage manufacturing industry,textile industry,papermaking and paper products industry,petroleum processing,coking and nuclear fuel processing industry,chemical materials and chemical products manufacturing,non-metallic mineral products industry,ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry,electricity,heat production and supply industry,which causes the pollution transfer such as waste water,sulfur dioxide and soot and other pollutants in China's central region. The article finally gives some suggestions about the strategy for industrial transfer and environmental protection in China's central region.