Study on Effect of Environmental Quality of Jiangsu Province on Economic Growth: Based on the Kuznets Curve

摘要

EKC hypothesis means the environmental quality shall be worsened gradually in the early stage of economic development and improved gradually when the economic development has reached a certain level, that is, the inverted U-shaped relationship is formed between the environmental pressure and the economic growth. The econometric model was set up between the economic development and emission of industrial pollution in accordance with the economic development and environmental data of Jiangsu Province in 2005-2014 on the basis of theory of environment Kuznets curve in this article in order to analyze the relationship track between the economic growth and environmental pollution in Jiangsu Province. Moreover, the industrial structure should be adjusted, the investment in environmental protection should be increased and the mode of economic growth should be transformed in order to implement the healthy and sustainable development of economy in Jiangsu Province because emission of pollution in Jiangsu Province is still increasing.