Abstract
China's economy has achieved rapid growth, but the change has also brought about serious environmental degradation, which is the main factor endangering human health. This study empirically investigates the impact of the population health environmental index on the promotion of provincial governors using an ordered probit model. The sample of the study consists of regions where provincial governors, municipal mayors, and autonomous region chairmen were stationed from 1995 to 2015. The results show that the population health environmental index had a significant and positive impact on governors' promotions, especially in the eastern region. The reformation of the population health environmental index assessment system for government officials was the initial factor that brought about these effects.
Highlights
China’s economy has experienced rapid growth for almost four decades
Our empirical results show that ecological and population health environmental indices have been integrated into the assessment and competition system for governors and that the improved population health environmental index has had a significant positive effect on the promotion of governors
The positive effects of this improved population health environmental index on governor promotion are more pronounced in the eastern region than in the western region
Summary
China’s economy has experienced rapid growth for almost four decades. Between 1979 and 2017, China’s GDP grew at an average annual rate of 9.60%, and its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average annual rate of 8.50%. In light of the increasingly serious problem of population health environmental pollution, the “Decision of the State Council on Implementing Scientific Viewpoint of Development and Strengthening Environmental Protection” in December 2005 explicitly included population health environmental protection in the assessment system of leadership teams and leading cadres. The new “Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China,” which came into effect in 2015, emphasizes the need to use the achievement of population health environmental protection goals as an important basis for the assessment and evaluation of local government officials. The 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party made the construction of an ecological civilization one of the focal points of China’s modernization It emphasized the inclusion of resource consumption, population health environmental damage and ecological benefits in the national economic development assessment system and the establishment of assessment methods and incentive mechanisms that reflect the requirements of an ecological civilization. The structure of the study is as follows: the second part is the theoretical analysis; the third part is the construction of the model, data sources, and descriptive statistics of the variables; the fourth part is the analysis of empirical results; and the last part is the conclusion of the study
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