Research on the relationship between environmental pollution and economy

The impact of economic growth on environment has been one of hot topics of scholars at home and abroad. The hypothesis of environmental Kuznets curve, and a large number of related verification studies are all based on time-series data, by which the relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution in a country or a region can be explained from time scale, however, the differences of economic development and technological progress are ignored in the studies. In this paper, we adopt the data of 2008 and use factor analysis to do evaluation on the environmental pollution degrees of 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions (not including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet), and then use regression analysis method to research the relationship between the regional environmental pollution degree and regional economy. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between them.