Has central environmental protection inspection improved air quality? Evidence from 291 Chinese cities

Lin, Jiayi; Long, Chao; Yi, Chengzhi

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106621

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“…First, our study indicates that CEI significantly promoted industrial structure upgrading, and the robustness test supports this finding. It is in line with previous studies that have highlighted the positive impact of CEI on corporate environmental investment, total factor productivity, and air quality (Wang et al, 2021b;Lin et al, 2021;. The results demonstrate that CEI, an institutional innovation in China, improves local In line with the literature on the attention-based view (Ocasio, 1997), our study reveals that CEI prompts local government officials to allocate more attention to the issues related to environmental protection and green development, thus effectively contributing to industrial structure upgrading.…”

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“…Central environmental inspection (CEI) is a command-andcontrol environmental regulatory tool that incorporates mass mail and phone reports into the process. It is a significant institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, launched in 2015 and eventually achieved full coverage of 31 provinces in 2018 (Lin et al, 2021;Deng et al, 2022). The CEI mainly checks the local governments' implementation of environmental policies on behalf of the central government, intending to promote local governments to actively take responsibility for environmental protection (Jia and Chen, 2019;He and Geng, 2020;Li et al, 2020;Xiang and van Gevelt, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Prior studies on CEI have provided a solid foundation and valuable insights. Some focused on CEI's policy effects (He and Geng, 2020;Li et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2021). Jia and Chen (2019) found that CEI positively impacted environmental performance and that this effect continued after CEI ended.…”

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Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Wang

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2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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While central environmental inspection (CEI), a sort of campaign-style enforcement, has been adopted in China to tackle environmental issues, it is unclear if the CEI has promoted industrial structure upgrading. Based on a sample of 279 cities from 2011 to 2018 in China, this study investigates the impact of CEI on industrial structure upgrading and its intrinsic mechanism using the difference-in-differences approach (DID). The results reveal that 1) CEI significantly promoted industrial structure upgrading. 2) Local government environmental attention played a mediating role between CEI and industrial structure upgrading. 3) Heterogeneity analysis revealed that the effect of CEI on industrial structure upgrading differed significantly with regional discrepancies and the officials’ promotion motivation. Specifically, the CEI had greater effects on the eastern region and those cities whose officials have a strong promotion motivation. This study indicates that the central government should continue to promote routine inspection, special inspection, and look-back mechanism construction, thus enhancing the sustainability of the industrial structure upgrading effect. Overall, this study contributes to industrial structure upgrading theoretical research and offers useful insights into the environmental governance of emerging countries.

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Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

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2022

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“…Fu et al [39] found that LCCP improves the overall carbon emission efficiency of pilot cities, and is more effective in Eastern pilot cities. Using the difference-in-differences (DID) model, Lin et al [40] empirically found that LCCP greatly reduced API and other air pollution indexes and improved urban air quality. Cheng et al [41] found that China's LCCP has a positive effect on green economic growth and has a more obvious impact on Eastern cities.…”

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Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

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Zhao

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As a comprehensive environmental regulation, the low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) may have an impact on haze pollution. The evaluation of the effectiveness of LCCP on haze pollution is greatly significant for air pollution prevention and control. Taking LCCP as the starting point, in this study we constructed DID, PSM-DID, and intermediary effect models to empirically test the impact and mechanism of LCCP on haze pollution, based on the panel data of 271 cities in China from 2005 to 2018. The findings show that (1) LCCP has significantly reduced the urban haze pollution, and the average annual concentration of PM2.5 in pilot cities decreased by 14.29%. (2) LCCP can inhibit haze pollution by promoting technological innovation, upgrading the industrial structure, and reducing energy consumption. Among these impacts, the effect of technological innovation is the strongest, followed by industrial structure, and energy consumption. (3) LCCP has significantly curbed the haze pollution of non-resource dependent cities, Eastern cities, and large cities, but exerted little impact on resource-dependent cities, Central and Western regions, and small and medium-sized cities. (4) LCCP has a spatial spillover effect. It can inhibit the haze pollution of adjacent cities through demonstration and warning effects. This study enriches the relevant research on LCCP and provides empirical support and policy enlightenment for pollution reduction.

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“…For example, Huo et al [ 35 ] adopted the DID model approach to study the carbon emission reduction effect of the low-carbon city pilot policy, finding that it can significantly reduce the per capita carbon emissions; the longer the pilot time, the more obvious the carbon emission reduction effect. Using the DID model, Lin et al [ 36 ] and Yan et al [ 37 ] empirically found that the low-carbon city pilot policy largely reduced API, PM2.5, and other air pollution indexes and improved urban air quality. The low-carbon city pilot policy has significantly improved urban ecological efficiency [ 38 ].…”

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Ecological Effect Assessment of Low-Carbon City Construction in China

Yin

Jin

2022

IJERPH

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This paper takes the second batch of low-carbon pilot cities in China as the research object and selects the Urban Health Ecological Index to measure the green development level of cities, aiming to explore and evaluate the theoretical mechanism and policy effect of low-carbon pilot projects to promote the coordinated development of urban economy, society and the environment. The research conclusions show that: ① The low-carbon city pilot project is conducive to support the pilot cities to build a low-carbon industrial system, advocate a low-carbon lifestyle, establish a low-carbon evaluation system, and then play a positive role in promoting the green development level of the city; ② By applying the Propensity Score Matching–Difference in Differences (PSM-DID) model, the empirical analysis finds that after the implementation of the pilot policy, the green development level of low-carbon pilot cities has been significantly improved, and this conclusion is still stable in the parallel trend test, counterfactual test and sample expansion test; ③ In terms of regional heterogeneity, the low-carbon pilot projects have a more significant policy effect on promoting the green development of provincial capitals and eastern cities. Strict administrative supervision in provincial capitals and good economic foundations in eastern cities have had a positive moderating effect on the policy effect of low-carbon pilot projects. Finally, this paper discusses how to realize the ecological effects of low-carbon city pilot projects and put forward some relevant policy suggestions.

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Has central environmental protection inspection improved air quality? Evidence from 291 Chinese cities

Cited by 63 publications

References 29 publications

Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Ecological Effect Assessment of Low-Carbon City Construction in China

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