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Environmental Management System in China: The Target Achieving Process

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Abstract

This paper indicated how insufficient authorities given to China’s Environmental Protection Bureaus and its lower status in governmental hierarchy caused leniency in the enforcement of environmental policies and hence the lower level of compliance in the past.

The Target Responsibility System and the management system for TRS process, such as Target Allocating Process and Target Achievement Process, have been important methods for China to overcome the problems in enforcing environmental policies.

Moreover, China has implemented and improved the system of public engagement with sufficient environmental information disclosure while expediting the processing of the complaints and petitions reported by citizens.

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Abbreviations

AQIT:

Air Quality Implement Targets

CCCPC:

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

EIA:

Environment impact assessment

EMC:

Environmental Model City

EPB:

Environmental Protection Bureau

FYP:

The National Five-Year Plan

GDP:

Gross domestic product

IPE:

Institute for Public & Environmental Affairs

NRDC:

The Natural Resources Defense Council

PEM:

Performance Examination Mechanism

PITI:

Pollution Information Transparency Index

PPP:

Purchasing power parity

RESCs:

Regional environmental supervision centers

RRP:

Regional Restriction Program

TRS:

Target Responsibility System

WPT:

Work Plan Targets

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  1. China Research and Communication Center (CRCC), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

    Zhen Jin

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  1. Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Hideki Kitagawa

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Jin, Z. (2017). Environmental Management System in China: The Target Achieving Process. In: Kitagawa, H. (eds) Environmental Policy and Governance in China. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56490-4_4

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