Inter-regional Differences in Environmental Regulation Intensity Among Chinese Provincial Governments and the Overall Planning Countermeasures

摘要

This research establishes a set of multi-layer comprehensive evaluation index system through global entropy method and conducts comprehensive evaluation of the environmental planning intensity among Chinese provincial governments. Based on the above, the inter-regional differences in environmental regulation intensity among 30 Chinese provincial governments are further analysed with methods of quartile analysis and coefficient of variance, revealing the status of spatial differences in environmental regulation level among provincial governments. In addition, corresponding overall planning countermeasures are proposed. Research results show that during 2006-2014, the environmental regulation intensity of various Chinese provincial governments had all seen certain improvement, but the inter-regional differences tended to be widening after experiencing certain amplitude of narrowing; and there was obvious difference in cognition of the importance of environmental governance investment among different provincial regions. To promote synergistic advancement of environmental regulation in Chinese provincial governments, the environmental regulation cooperation mechanism for cross-administrative regions has to be perfected, scientific and reasonable regional government performance examination mechanism has to be established, and muti-subject synergistic governance mechanism has to be set up as well.