Economic growth pressure and energy efficiency improvement: Empirical evidence from Chinese cities

J Zhu, B Lin - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
… Economic growth target management has been a typical feature of Chinese governments
at all levels for a long time in the past decades. Based on a panel data of 188 Chinese cities, …

Socioeconomic drivers of urban heat island effect: Empirical evidence from major Chinese cities

Y Li, Y Sun, J Li, C Gao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
… drivers on UHI dynamics in major Chinese cities. We utilized generalized additive model (…
Finally, we obtained the multi-time-scales urban LST datasets of major Chinese cities from …

How do urban haze pollution and economic development affect each other? Empirical evidence from 287 Chinese cities during 2000–2016

T Gan, H Yang, W Liang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
… , this paper selects panel data on 287 cities in China and constructs a spatial simultaneous
… uses city-level data to better reflect the current state of smog pollution in Chinese cities. (4) …

Urban growth pattern and commuting efficiency: Empirical evidence from 100 Chinese cities

Y Rao, J Yang, D Dai, K Wu, Q He - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
… Based on an empirical study of 100 congested cities in China, this study evaluated the impact
of UGP on urban commuting efficiency in China. Specifically, based on the static structural …

… the differentiated impacts of socioeconomic factors and urban forms on CO2 emissions: Empirical evidence from Chinese cities of different developmental levels

J Ou, X Liu, S Wang, R Xie, X Li - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
… On the base of previous researches, this study aims to evaluate China's city-level CO 2
emissions in 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015 through the combination of the nighttime light …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of city-county mergers on urban energy intensity: Empirical evidence from Chinese cities

Z Li, R Yan, Z Zhang, Y Sun, X Zhang - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Secondly, this paper focuses the impact of city-county mergers on urban energy intensity, …
In general, we provide empirical evidence for evaluating the energy-saving performance of city-…

[HTML][HTML] Are small cities more environmentally friendly? An empirical study from China

S Liu, F Fan, J Zhang - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… sizes are rapidly expanding, and urban air pollution is a serious challenge in China. PM 2.5
… PM 2.5 and city size. In this paper, using the panel data of 278 cities in China from 2007 to …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the “low-carbon city pilot” policy on energy intensity based on the empirical evidence of Chinese cities

M Hong, S Chen, K Zhang - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Based on this, our analysis exploits China’s “low-carbon city pilot” policy as a quasi-natural …
cities in China from 2006 to 2016. The empirical results show that: first, the low-carbon city

Does government expenditure affect environmental quality? Empirical evidence using Chinese city-level data

Q Zhang, S Zhang, Z Ding, Y Hao - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
… With rapid economic development, the Chinese government expenditures at various … in
China has deteriorated significantly. In this study, the city-level panel data of 106 Chinese cities

[HTML][HTML] Is improvement of innovation efficiency conducive to haze governance? Empirical evidence from 283 Chinese cities

F Fan, D Cao, N Ma - International journal of environmental research and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… halo’ nor ‘pollution paradise’ hypotheses have been verified at the Chinese city level. …
innovation in Chinese cities, China began to implement the construction of an innovative city pilot …