Does the Opening of High-Speed Railway Lines Reduce the Carbon Intensity of China's Resource-Based Cities?

doi:10.3390/en14154648

	Does the Opening of High-Speed Railway Lines Reduce the Carbon Intensity of China's Resource-Based Cities?
	Tang, Zhipeng 1,2; Mei, Ziao 1,2; Zou, Jialing 3
刊名	ENERGIES
	2021-08-01
卷号	14 期号:15 页码:18
关键词	resource-based city high-speed railway carbon intensity difference-in-difference method China
DOI	10.3390/en14154648
通讯作者	Zou, Jialing(202010012@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn)
英文摘要	The carbon intensity of China's resource-based cities (RBCs) is much higher than the national average due to their relatively intensive mode of development. Low carbon transformation of RBCs is an important way to achieve the goal of reaching the carbon emissions peak in 2030. Based on the panel data from 116 RBCs in China from 2003 to 2018, this study takes the opening of high-speed railway (HSR) lines as a quasi-experiment, using a time-varying difference-in-difference (DID) model to empirically evaluate the impact of an HSR line on reducing the carbon intensity of RBCs. The results show that the opening of an HSR line can reduce the carbon intensity of RBCs, and this was still true after considering the possibility of problems with endogenous selection bias and after applying the relevant robustness tests. The opening of an HSR line is found to have a significant reducing effect on the carbon intensity of different types of RBC, and the decline in the carbon intensity of coal-based cities is found to be the greatest. Promoting migration of RBCs with HSR lines is found to be an effective intermediary way of reducing their carbon intensity.
资助项目	National Key Research and Development Program of China[2016YFA0602804] ; Major Project of National Social Science Foundation[21ZDA097] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571518] ; Foundation for Distinguished Young Talents in Higher Education of Guangdong, China[2020WQNCX016]
WOS关键词	TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE ; AIR-POLLUTION ; CO2 EMISSIONS ; ENVIRONMENTAL-POLLUTION ; ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ; EFFICIENCY ; IMPACTS ; INVESTMENT ; PROJECTS ; POLICIES
WOS研究方向	Energy & Fuels
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000681887100001
资助机构	National Key Research and Development Program of China ; Major Project of National Social Science Foundation ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Foundation for Distinguished Young Talents in Higher Education of Guangdong, China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/164733]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Zou, Jialing
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Guangdong Univ Foreign Studies, Guangdong Inst Int Strategies, Guangzhou 510420, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tang, Zhipeng,Mei, Ziao,Zou, Jialing. Does the Opening of High-Speed Railway Lines Reduce the Carbon Intensity of China's Resource-Based Cities?[J]. ENERGIES,2021,14(15):18.
APA	Tang, Zhipeng,Mei, Ziao,&Zou, Jialing.(2021).Does the Opening of High-Speed Railway Lines Reduce the Carbon Intensity of China's Resource-Based Cities?.ENERGIES,14(15),18.
MLA	Tang, Zhipeng,et al."Does the Opening of High-Speed Railway Lines Reduce the Carbon Intensity of China's Resource-Based Cities?".ENERGIES 14.15(2021):18.