“…From the dimension of financial resources, the implementation of environmental policy in different places usually depends on central financial incentives and local financial capacity (Dunlop and Corbera, 2016;Qi and Zhang, 2014), and sufficient financial resources are an important guarantee for local governments to implement environmental governance (He et al, 2012;Tacconi et al, 2008), while when there is a large financial pressure, it changes local government behavior, making local governments pay more attention to economic growth and neglect the environment, and this incentive effect formed by financial pressure is This incentive effect formed by fiscal pressure is an important reason for the growth of industrial pollution in China (Hui et al, 2022). In contrast, the implementation of the poverty alleviation policy has led the state to increase the intensity of investment in poverty alleviation funds in counties (Luo et al, 2021), and the financial transfer payments shared at the central, provincial, counties, and county levels have reconciled the contradictions between the central and local governments in terms of financial resources (financial power) and environmental governance matters (affairs) (Gong et al, 2020), bringing an increase in the level of financial security of local governments (Su et al, 2021;Wen and Lee, 2020), which has helped to alleviate the financial pressure on local contributes to the improvement of urban productivity and resource use efficiency (Hou et al, 2022;Hui et al, 2022), significantly increases the willingness and motivation of local governments to protect the environment (Zhang and Zhao, 2018), and therefore this will help localities to improve the environmental quality situation. Accordingly, this paper proposes hypotheses two and three:…”