Going green or going away: Environmental regulation, economic geography and firms’ strategies in China’s pollution-intensive industries

This chapter seeks to focus on China pollution-intensive industries and document some of the ways in which different levels of government and different kinds of firms are attempting to deal with new challenges emerged in the 2000s and the dilemma they pose.

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