关键词: 环境库兹涅茨曲线, 空间溢出效应, 雾霾污染, PM2.5, PM10

Abstract: This paper tests the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) of haze pollution, considering the characteristics of spatial agglomeration of haze pollution, by constructing the Spatial Tobit Model. To test the hypothesis, we use 160 prefectural-level and above cities as the research sample and take PM2.5 and PM10 as a measure of haze pollution. The results show that: The haze pollution in the urban area of China has obvious spatial agglomeration. After controlling the economic scale and other variables, it isn’t an inverted-U-shaped of EKC between the haze pollution and economic development, but a linear decline. The governance of the haze pollution in china has made phased achievements. Among the many control variables, economic scale, industrial structure and population density has a significant positive effect on the haze pollution, while reasonable economic density will reduce the haze pollution. At the same time, haze pollution is closely related to geographical location. Although the haze pollution control has achieved some success, we should be clearly aware that the governance of haze pollution is a long-term process. Therefore, in the future, we should turn the mode and adjust the structure in the process of economic development.

Key words: Environmental Kuznets Curve, Spatial Spillover Effects, Haze Pollution, PM2.5, PM10.