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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Environmental Regulation, Spatial
Spillovers and High Quality Economic
Development – The Moderating Effect
of Green Technology Innovation
1
School of Economics, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Yubei Chongqing 401120, China
2
Chongqing Jiasi Town Agricultural Service Center, Jiangjin Chongqing 402281, China
3
Chongqing Bank of Communications, Changshou 401200, China
4
School of National Security, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Yubei Chongqing 401120, China
5
Chongqing University Press, Shapingba Chongqing 401331, China
6
Chongqing College of Mobile Communication, Hechuan Chongqing 401520, China
Submission date: 2024-07-17
Final revision date: 2024-08-27
Acceptance date: 2024-09-03
Online publication date: 2024-12-10
Publication date: 2025-11-04
Corresponding author
Ming Xu
School of National Security, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Yubei Chongqing 401120, China
School of National Security, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Yubei Chongqing 401120, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(6):6763-6779
KEYWORDS
environmental regulationhigh-quality economic developmentgreen technological progressspatial spilloversmoderating effects
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
This study selects the data of 30 provinces in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan,
and Xizang) from 2011 to 2021 as a sample, and explains the mechanism of the role of environmental
regulation on the high-quality development of the economy from direct and indirect aspects by
constructing an index of high-quality development of the economy, and at the same time, analyzes
the green technological innovation with the GTFP index measured by the super-efficiency SBMGML
method as a proxy variable for the green technology innovation as a proxy variable to analyze
the moderating effect of green technology innovation in the process of environmental regulation
and economic high-quality development. The main conclusions are as follows: Environmental
regulation can significantly promote high-quality economic development, and its promotion effect is
still very obvious after combining it with the moderating variable of green technological innovation.
There is a positive spatial spillover effect of environmental regulations in the process of promoting
high-quality economic development. The main contribution of this paper is to enrich the research
in the field of environmental regulation and high-quality economic development, which not only
provides a theoretical and empirical basis for China’s future development, but also provides empirical
support for developing countries.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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