摘要：With the increasingly urgency of the environmental problems, researches on this field have become hotspot. However, there are a few scholar studies on the convergence in intensity of environmental regulationand the relationship between the differences of GDP per worker and those of intensity of environmentalregulation. Based on this reason, this paper studied above issues by the panel data of industrial sectors ofeach province in China during 2000-2011, and got conclusions as follows: (1) Among the national group andfour individual groups, only some groups existed absolute convergence in the two indexes of GDP perworker and the intensity of environmental regulation, but conditional convergence of the two indexes wasexisted in all groups. Specific to the convergence speed, the high-yield low-emission group per worker(group I) was slower than the high-yield high-emission group per worker (group II), the low-yield low-emissiongroup per worker (group III) and the low-yield high-emission group per worker (group IV). (2) While thechasing group narrowed the gap in GDP per worker with group I, it was also narrowing the gap in theintensity of environmental regulation, but the convergence speed of the latter is slower than the former.However, the specific situations of the chasing group in 19 provinces are all different; there are four tendenciesthat are strong convergence, weak convergence, strong divergence and weak divergence.
