Coupling Coordination Relationship of Forestry Industry Development and Ecological Environment: Evidence from the Northeast Region of China

Qi Zhang¹Donghui Bai¹Chenhuan Kou^2*Wenbo Gao³

• ¹Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China
• ²Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China
• ³Daqing Huali Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Daqing, China

The Chinese economy is entering a new era of high-quality development, and promoting high-quality development has become an inevitable requirement for maintaining healthy economic development and following the laws of economic development. As an essential component of China's modern economic construction, the forestry industry's high-quality development will become a meaningful way to transform old and new driving forces and accelerate the construction of ecological civilization. However, as the development of the forestry industry mainly relies on forest resources, the continuous consumption of resources will inevitably impact the environment, leading to contradictions between the development of the forestry industry and the ecological environment. Therefore, taking the Northeast region as an example, this paper applies the coupling coordination degree model to calculate the coupling coordination relationship between the development of the forestry industry and the ecological environment in Northeast China from 2011 to 2022, which has important practical significance for promoting the coordination between forestry industry development and environmental environment in Northeast China. The results indicate that, firstly, the development of the forestry industry and the ecological environment promote, influence, and constrain each other. Secondly, from 2011 to 2022, there is still a specific gap between the development of the forestry industry and the ecological environment in Northeast China, both of which have reached a state of benign coordination. Thirdly, from 2011 to 2022, only the relationship between the development of the forestry industry and the ecological environment in Liaoning Province in Northeast China includes antagonism, adaptation, coupling, and imbalance, while the other two provinces do not have any imbalance. Based on the above results, the Northeast region can promote the coupling and coordinated development of the forestry industry and the ecological environment by restructuring the forestry industry transformation mode, rational development and utilization of forest resources, advocating clean production projects, and promoting low-carbon economic development.