Analysis Of The Ecological Environment Effect Of Introducing Foreign Direct Investment In The Yangtze River Delta Region

As one of the regions with the highest level of economic development in China,the Yangtze River Delta region accounts for more than 50% of the country’s foreign capital utilization,occupying an important strategic position in China’s socialist modernization drive.However,as the Yangtze River Delta region attracts more foreign investment,the issue of environmental pollution in the region has also begun to highlight.In order to clarify the relationship between foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in the Yangtze River Delta region and its mechanism of action,this article systematically reviews relevant domestic and foreign literature and theories related to the environmental effects of FDI,and thoroughly analyzes the impact mechanisms of FDI on the environment-scale effects,structural effects,and technological effects.After that,this article collected relevant data from four provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2001 to 2020 as research samples,used the emissions of industrial wastes as an indicator to measure the current situation of environmental pollution,and added population and environmental regulations as control variables to conduct empirical analysis.The empirical results showed that the impact of foreign investment introduction on industrial sulfur dioxide and industrial solid waste in the Yangtze River Delta region was significantly negative,while the impact on industrial wastewater emissions was significantly positive,This indicates that the entry of foreign capital has improved some environmental indicators in the Yangtze River Delta region,but has exacerbated wastewater discharge to a relatively low extent.Therefore,from the overall perspective,the entry of FDI has improved the ecological environment in the Yangtze River Delta,in line with the pollution halo hypothesis.Finally,based on the results of the research on the environmental effects of FDI in the Yangtze River Delta region,this paper proposes suggestions from three perspectives: government,enterprises,and individuals.