Heliyon (Jan 2024)
Spatial difference analysis and dynamic evolution prediction of urban industrial integrated water use efficiency in China
Abstract
Comprehensive quantitative assessment of China's urban industrial water use efficiency is effectively promote the green industrial development important steps in order to realize the overall development of high quality. Between 2009 and 2021, 290 in China based on ground level above the panel data of the city, this paper conducts research based on two principles of efficiency improvement and four models of efficiency analysis. The results show that: First, from the perspective of spatial differences, the integrated water use efficiency of urban industry in China presents a slow and uneven upward trend of “low in the east and high in the west, high in the middle and low in the north and south”. Second, from the perspective of driving factors, population density and government public investment on the whole inhibit the development of this efficiency, while GDP development and technological innovation promote it. Third, from the perspective of dynamic evolution prediction, the phenomenon of “beggar-thy-neighbor” and “neighborly kindness” coexist. Therefore, the government should implement industrial water-saving measures according to local conditions, the society should improve the supervision of the behavior of wasting industrial water, and the enterprises should speed up the integration process of industrial primary and repeat water efficiency, so as to promote the comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society.
