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The research on agglomeration and pollution has not reached a consistent conclusion in recent years, and the relevant research mainly focuses on the manufacturing industry. This paper takes producer services agglomeration as the research object, integrates environmental regulation into the research framework, and use the inter-provincial panel data from 2003 to 2017 to explore the impact of producer services agglomeration on industrial pollution. Using system GMM and difference GMM method to build model to carry on the empirical analysis, the results indicate that the agglomeration of producer services through economies of scale and technology spill-over effect to reduce industrial pollution, environmental regulation has promoted the effect to the former, the interaction between producer services cluster and environmental regulation can promote industrial pollution emissions.

Digital finance (DF) is a technology-driven financial innovation. Its rise has had an impact on financial business, making finance begin to break through the limitations of time and space. As the core content of the modern economy, the development of the financial industry provides important support for the healthy development of the real economy, the improvement of resource allocation efficiency, and the emergence and growth of emerging business formats. It plays an incomparable role in the development of our country’s national economy. As a product of financial development to a certain extent, financial agglomeration is an important symbol of high-quality financial development. As a hot topic in finance, DF and financial agglomeration have research enthusiasm and research significance. This article aims to study the agglomeration and development of the Internet digital financial industry under the background of big data. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of digital financial agglomeration and the effects of financial agglomeration, with the help of location entropy method, it analyzes the case of 5 regions in a certain region, sorts out the mechanism of digital finance in the region to promote the development of financial agglomeration, and provides a reference for the development of other regions. The case analysis results show that the development of DF in the region has a positive correlation with the degree of financial agglomeration, and the development of DF has promoted the deepening of financial agglomeration.

GLOBE is a French acronym for “Granules pour la LOgistique des Bitumes d’Enrobage” literally meaning «Bituminous granulates for the logistic of coating binders». This project supported by ADEME (French Environment & Energy Management Agency) focuses on the development of an innovative technical solution to ensure a logistic of bituminous binders from refineries to asphalt mix plants which is cold, waste free and thus cleaner and safer. The main challenge is to modify a material such as bitumen, usually handled hot in liquid form, in order to be able to produce a granular form of it, which stays stable over time. In order to do that, it is required to overcome in-depth its typical binder characteristics, especially its creep behavior and its exceptional adhesiveness properties. This implies to modify the rheology of the binder and to take into consideration the granulation technology. The final product should avoid agglomeration phenomena, while taking into account the mechanical and thermal stresses associated with the handling, storage and transport of the pellets.