Socioeconomic Drivers of Environmental Pollution in China: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

Table 1

The environmental pollution index of ten cities.

	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Beijing	−0.38	−0.42	−0.51	−0.59	−0.57	−0.68	−0.65	−0.57	−0.46	−0.44
Tianjin	0.26	0.05	0.13	0.01	0.00	−0.08	−0.02	0.05	−0.01	0.03
Shijiazhuang	0.23	0.15	0.02	0.07	0.05	−0.29	−0.26	−0.21	0.01	0.10
Tangshan	1.44	0.90	0.80	0.86	0.87	1.25	0.88	0.66	0.84	0.76
Qinhuangdao	−0.02	−0.08	−0.15	−0.17	−0.22	−0.40	−0.22	−0.15	0.19	0.22
Handan	0.08	0.02	−0.05	−0.05	−0.02	−0.16	−0.26	−0.23	0.00	−0.05
Xingtai	−0.02	−0.05	−0.12	−0.12	−0.12	0.05	−0.16	−0.20	−0.11	−0.09
Baoding	−0.46	−0.47	−0.50	−0.52	−0.56	−0.68	−0.64	−0.52	−0.36	−0.33
Zhangjiakou	0.24	0.15	0.01	0.06	0.07	−0.29	−0.04	0.00	−0.08	−0.10
Chengde	−0.24	−0.12	−0.15	−0.13	0.08	0.13	0.16	−0.02	−0.07	−0.10