The Health Impacts of Air Pollution and FDI in China: Regional Difference

摘要

The rapid process of industrialization and FDI in China over the past few years has resulted in degradation in air quality. This paper studies the effect of FDI and air pollution to health in China using the panel data of 30 cities from 2003 to 2006. The results show that FDI and SO₂ has significantly positive effect to the mortality, while PM₁₀ and NO₂ doesn't have such significant effect, and there is obvious regional effect with SO₂ in eastern region, PM₁₀ and NO₂ in middle region, and PM₁₀ in western region has a significant impaction to mortality, so we should do different regional measures to improve the level of health.