Research On The Influence Of Environmental Regulation On Export Product Quality In China

Facing the dual challenges of developed countries ’ trade barriers and the rapid rise of low-cost advantages in developing countries,China’s export trade model needs to be transformed and upgraded to form a new competitive advantage in the quality of export products.At the same time,with the increasingly serious environmental problems caused by economic growth,environmental regulation at the national level has become increasingly severe in recent years.Comprehensively strengthen the economic green transformation,integrate the construction of ecological civilization into the government’s medium and long-term planning,and promote green sustainable development.Green development and high-level opening up are important links for China to achieve the goal of socialist modernization in the new era.Can strict environmental regulation promote green development and building a trading power while achieving ecological improvement ? This paper focuses on the high-quality development of China’s foreign trade,taking environmental regulations as the research perspective,and focusing on the performance characteristics and mechanisms affecting the quality of export products.Firstly,in terms of theoretical research,this paper constructs a heterogeneous enterprise trade model in an open economy,and explores the micro-mechanism of environmental regulation affecting export trade and product quality upgrading through dynamic general equilibrium analysis.Secondly,based on the ’Porter Hypothesis’ and other related theoretical basis,this paper explores the channels and mechanisms of environmental regulation affecting export product quality.Finally,this paper selects the provincial-level panel data in China from 2003 to 2019,builds a dynamic panel data model,and adopts the SYS-GMM estimation method for empirical verification.The main conclusions of this paper include :(1)In general,there is a dynamic non-linear "U-shaped" relationship between environmental regulation and the quality of export products.(2)From the perspective of channels,this study confirms the positive synergy between financial development and skill premium in the path of environmental regulation affecting export product quality.Financial market development and skill premium can strengthen the ’ innovation compensation ’ effect of environmental regulation,gradually weaken or even offset environmental costs,stimulate production process improvement,product technology innovation,improve production efficiency,and then promote export product quality upgrading in the long term.(3)Heterogeneity test results show that there are obvious regional and industrial differences in the impact of environmental regulation on export product quality.Finally,based on the research results,this paper presents the corresponding policy suggestions.