“…In 2004, only 13 provinces, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan and Liaoning, have a coupling coordination degree of above 0.4, which indicates that CCDGE in these provinces were in the stage of moderate coupling coordination. Until 2020, only Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong in eastern region reach the stage of high coupling coordination, but Qinghai, Xinjiang and Ningxia in western region are still in the stage of low coupling coordination [4]. As shown in Table 3, the average of CCDGE at country level indicates that the coupling coordination development between green nance and environmental governance of China is always moderate.…”