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This paper develops a theoretical model to argue that trade and economic growth cannot always be harmful to the environment if investors value the environment as an important asset, or ingredient, in their production process. In other words, the incentives of investors to move away from highly polluted locations to less polluted regions can unleash a virtuous process of environmental improvement. We empirically examine the impact of trade and economic growth on pollution in China's Yangtze River Delta to ascertain the findings of our theoretical model. Our analysis of the panel data from 16 cities, over the period 2004 to 2007, reveals that the positive correlation between trade, growth and pollution is weakened if the environment is taken into account in production and location decisions of investors. In addition, this paper also attempts to decompose the impact of trade on the environment in terms of scale, technique, and structure effects. By making use of data from 1999 and 2009, however, we stress that the impact of technique and structure effects of trade on environment in Yangtze River Delta has been adverse — a sharp increase in exports has resulted in strong scale effect.

It is not only the national strategic instruction but also the development trend for Lingang to make full use of its own advantages to drive the coordinated development of industries in the Yangtze River Delta. This paper first analyzes the internal and external advantage endowments of Lingang based on the map. Then it selects several elements, using SPSS gray correlation degree analysis, and draws line charts, tables, and radar charts. The specific policy of industrial collaboration between the Lingang Special Area and other regions (cities in Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, and Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone, etc.) is obtained.

This paper uses computer technology to analyze the data of the Yangtze River Delta from 2003 to 2019 and studies the impact of borrowing scale and borrowing function on total factor productivity. The results show that borrowed size and borrowed functions can accelerate the promotion of total factor productivity: technical efficiency and technological progress. The former can be improved by borrowed size and borrowed functions, and the latter can be further advanced by upgrading the industrial structure. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the accessibility between cities, improve technical efficiency and technological progress, and promote the matching of the industrial structure with urban scale and function, thereby realizing the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.