On this basis, Grossman proved the relationship between environmental quality and per capita GDP, and pointed out that “environmental pollution in relatively will increase with the increase of per capita GDP when the income level is low, but with the development of GDP, the pollution will be less”. Finally, the economic growth and environmental pollution are found like “Inverted U” curve. The economic growth is depicted on the horizontal axis, and the environmental pollution is depicted on the vertical axis. The most famous research on the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth is the “environmental Kuznets curve” (EKC), which uses economic growth as an explanatory variable and uses environmental pollution as an explanatory variable. Therefore, this paper analyzes the relationship between the subjective well-being and air pollution and finally calculates the willingness of residents to pay for the improvement of environment. At present, China is in the situation of “stagnation of happiness”, and the continuous haze weather is one of the important reasons for the “low happiness”. In recent years, foreign scholars have begun to study the impact of public goods such as environmental pollution on subjective well-being. Nowadays, it can be used in many things, but people always use it to draw the happiness for life. In particular, SWB can describe people’s feeling about everything, for example, their feeling about life, about work, about environment and other things. Subjective Well-being refers to “the individual’s subjective feelings about their life” or “the overall feeling of happiness in life”. Many disciplines have paid attention to “Subjective well-being”, such as economics, sociology, psychology and so on. At this stage, exploring the impact of environmental pollution on residents’ happiness is a major problem to be solved in achieving “happy growth”. has pointed out that happiness has become an important index to measure people’s livelihood. So we cannot jump to conclusions when we discuss the influence of environmental pollution, because economic growth can bring environmental pollution.Īt present, scholars mainly study the measurement of indicators of air pollution, and the relationship between economic growth and air pollution, but they pay less attention to study the air pollution to residents’ livelihood. There is no doubt that China’s economic is developing, and the income level of the resident is improving all the time. Under this background, it is urgent and important thing to study air pollution. The air pollution is a severe environmental constraint for China’s economic development and it is also a major challenge to build an environment-friendly society in China. In this report, it is said that, in 2016, in 338 cities across the country, 254 of them exceed the standard of air quality, with a proportion of 75.1%. The Ministry of Environmental Protection has published “2016 China environmental situation bulletin”. Haze weather will cause more cardiovascular diseases and increase the risk of cancer. In 2016, at The Conference National on Environment and Health has clearly pointed out that the continuous fog weather and haze weather in China is closely related to the increasingly air pollution. This can cause the haze weather in each area of China, finally causing serious impact on public health.
This can make the air pollution worse nowadays. In the existing economic system of China, “high pollution, high energy” consuming industry based economy still occupies a pivotal position. At the same time, the pollution of environment and deterioration of ecological environment is becoming worse than before.
Since the Reform and Opening Up, the growth of China continued to accelerate.
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