Improving high-quality development with environmental regulation and industrial structure in China

At the present stage, economic high quality has become an inevitable trend for the healthy development of society. Environmental regulation of new green innovation initiatives has become a breakthrough for economic high quality. The optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure will also have an unprecedented impact on the sustainable growth of the economy. The focus of this study is to analyze the dynamic relationship between environmental regulation, industrial structure advancement and economic high quality. Based on the panel data of the Huaihe River Economic Belt from 2005 to 2018, an empirical study is conducted using the spatial Durbin model. The results show that the economic high quality has a spatial spillover effect, the impact of environmental regulation on economic high quality of the local and neighboring regions is shown as an inverted “U” shape, improving the advanced level of industrial structure can positively affect economy of the local and neighboring regions. Moreover, this study innovatively points out that environmental regulation is positively regulating the relationship between the advanced industrial structure and economic high quality. The above research results have important guiding significance for accelerating the green and sustainable development of the country and region.