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China has achieved spectacular growth in the past forty years, and its economic structure has experienced great transformation. The country has also gradually opened up to foreign trade and direct foreign investment, transforming itself from a virtually completely closed economy into a major trading nation, and the largest developing-country destination for foreign direct investment in the world. However, since this reform, China has become a superpower in energy consumption. It has also become a big producer of pollution emissions. It has been widely argued that Chinas rapid processes of industrial development and opening up were relying too heavily on increasing inputs of environmental resources. Unsustainable environmental practices posed serious threats to Chinas natural environment. A growing concern China now faces is that the current pattern of economic development may not be sustainable, because it tends to lead to irreversible depletion of natural resources and deterioration of the ecological environment. The relationship between regional growth, sustainability in development, and the natural environment in China is thus an interesting and important issue that deserves further in-depth studies. Environmental practices play an important role in shaping Chinas regional growth, interregional inequality, and its future development strategies. Sustainability in growth and development from an environmental point of view exerts strong influences on the continuous restructuring and upgrading of the Chinese economy. The analyses in the present book delve into issues related to regional growth, interregional inequality, and the prospect of sustainable development in China from an environmental perspective. This book provides the reader with related facts, thoughts, models, and empirical results as well as discussions that shed light on those issues.

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Dr Yanqing Jiang received his PhD in economics from the Hanken School of Economics in Finland, and is currently Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Finance, Shanghai International Studies University. He used to work at Heilongjiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Sydney Institute of Language and Commerce, Shanghai University, and the Helsinki Center of Economic Research in Finland. Yanqings recent academic works (2009-2016), which include books and journal articles, have all been written and published in English. He takes international economics and development economics as his main research fields, with a special focus on the Chinese economy. His recent research includes seven solely authored academic monographs published by well-known academic publishers, and more than thirty academic articles published in peer-refereed journals.

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