Research on Long-Term Mechanism of China’s Environmental Governance
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Shangqin Zhou, Shengxi Guo
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Shangqin Zhou
Abstract
The impetus mechanism of environmental governance is the accountability system. The China’s central government adopts the path of environmental protection inspection and implements “shared liability of the party and the government”, “bi-liability under single position” and “stringent accountability”, which captures the essence of the issue of the environmental governance However, environmental inspection can only work in a short-term manner for environmental governance, and cannot replace the long-term legal system that has been established. It is necessary to avoid the extremes of environmental inspection only. Environmental governance should consciously return to a long-term legal mechanism, with the accountability system as the key pillar, strengthen both legal and political accountability, use environmental protection assessment as a drive mechanism, give play to the political advantages of the environmental protection inspection system, and urge environmental governance entities to perform their duties in accordance with the law, so as to build a long-term mechanism for environmental governance.
Keywords
Environmental governance, Environmental protection inspection, Party and government accountability, Performance appraisal, Long-term mechanism
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