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The research about environment impact of foreign trade derives from the research about economic growth and the environment, and its economic logical beginning lies in the externalities and the incomplete market mechanism. Along with the integrating into the global production network, the expansion of our country foreign trade and the economic development, the contradiction between the foreign trade activity and the ecological environment’s is deepening day by day, thus the research about environment impact of foreign trade becomes the mainstream of academe. In the past few years, the various countries’ expert and even the populace takes the global climate change topic seriously. The Scholars have already conducted the research about the low-carbon economy’s concept, the construction of low-carbon city, the transformation to the low-carbon life style, the carbon customs duty and so on. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference,192 countries’ representatives discussed the follow-up program after the "Kyoto Protocol" our leaders also makes the pledge of energy-saving and ejection-decreasing.In the past ten years, the economy of china has made rapid progress, the yearly average rate of increment of GDP has surpassed 10%, and leapt to the world second economy. China has become the star of the economy world. There is no doubt that the development is important, but whether the development is sustainable is more important. Looks over the eastern, central and Western of china, there is no difficult to find that behind the Chinese economic boom is the imbalance of the economic structure and regional economy. The economic growth of china relies on the export factor seriously, and exporting the products cause high pollution, the proportion of high emissions and resources intensity product’s is very high, which is one kind of not sustainable growth; The per capita income of three region of China is disparate, which is a reality that need our making of policy to adjust. We can’t simply take the same way in making the change of the way of economic growth, the adjustment of the structure of export products, facing the regional difference.This article based on the international trade theory and on the analysis of east middle and west’s export situation, make certain improvement to Grossman and Krueger(1991)’s environment effect of free trade model, and calculated the panel-database of the carbon dioxide (CO2)of the 29 provinces from year 1995-2007 by the energy conversion technique, examined the influence of export to local carbon discharge from regional point of view, finally demonstrated that in the east,5 out of llprovince’s exports are highly related to the carbon discharge, middle is 6 out of 8, while in the west 5 province out of 10’s exports are highly related to the carbon discharge.This paper proposed certain policy suggestion based on the theory and empirical study above, and in order to realize the coordinate development of eastern, middle and western economy, and improve the export products structure and steps on the road of low-carbon development.
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