Restructing Industry Category and Distribution across Administrative Areas Based on Environmental Constraint - A Case Study of Wuhai and its Surrounding Regions, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Abstract:

Industrial agglomeration often happens in the surrounding areas of a relatively developed industrial zone. If these industries are not environmentally friendly, the entire area will be contaminated. This is often the case in China. Therefore, in order to reduce the pollution in these contaminated regions, restructuring the category, size and spatial distribution of the surrounding industries based on the environmental constraints is urgently needed. In this paper, we build the relationship between the environmental contaminants and the industrial types, calculate the amount of pollution distribution in the industrial chain, and propose the approaches to control the types, size and spatial distribution of polluting industries. In the case of Wuhai and its surrounding regions(WH&SR), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, based on the calculation of industrial types, size and spatial distribution in every cross-border region, we find that under the world-leading Cleaner Production Standards, output of polluting industries should be less than 20% in order to achieve its environmental goals.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 524-527)
• Pages: 3283-3289
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.524-527.3283
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Wen Qi Lin, Qiu Sang, Ting Yu, Ming Fei Ma
• Keywords: Cross-Border Region, Industrial Restructuring, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Wuhai

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