关键自然资本对中国区域经济增长的影响

Impact of Critical Natural Capital on China's Regional Economic Growth

关键自然资本提供人类健康与福利功能,关键自然资本能否通过影响人力资本积累与外溢,从而产生区域经济增长效应,仍是有待进一步检验的理论问题。文章基于省际面板数据,对各类关键自然资本能否促进区域经济增长进行实证分析。研究结果表明,关键自然资本能够促进区域经济增长,产生经济增长效应主要是通过人力资本积累与外溢得以实现。研究结论对应的政策含义为,一要加大对关键自然资本投资,扩大其外部性实施范围;二是不断提高人力资本水平,以促进关键自然资本要素功能的发挥,实现生态、经济和社会协调健康发展。

Critical natural capital yields human health and life-filling conditions. Can critical natural capital promotes economic growth by human capital accumulation or spillover？ It＇s an important theoretical proposition to be tested. Based on the China＇s provincial panel data, this paper investigates the effect of critical natural capital on regional economic growth with panel models. The findings show that critical natural capital can promote regional economic growth; human capital accumulation and spillover is the main mechanism of critical natural capital promoting regional economic growth. The implications of the findings are as follows. We should follow the green development and invest more in critical natural capital and should improve human capital so as to promote transformation critical natural capital to productivity, to achieve the full-scale and harmonious development in ecology, economy, and society.