Transportation infrastructure and eco-environmental quality: Evidence from China's high-speed rail.

ABSTRACT: Ecological civilization construction is China's national development strategy, and improving the urban eco-environmental quality is the key to accelerating this strategy, while the high-speed rail (HSR) opening is an important factor affecting the urban eco-environmental quality. Using panel data of 290 cities in China from 2004 to 2020, this study explores the impact of HSR opening on urban eco-environmental quality and its heterogeneity from the perspective of direct impact and interaction between HSR connected cities. Compared with cities without HSR service, the eco-environmental quality of cities with HSR service has significantly increased by 0.023 standard deviations, which is about 4.11% of the total change in urban eco-environmental quality in the same period. Second, there is an

SUBMITTER: Wei LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465004 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature