Quantitative Analysis of How China’s Six Major Scientific & Technological Program to Include Environment Protection based on Data 1982-2015

Abstract

Environment protection has been a trans-disciplinary public policy issue on the global government agenda, including China. However, research on how PRC China’s six major S&T program to include environment protection remains a research vacuum. The core research question is how environment protection has been included in China’s major S&T programs in a quantitative way. The conclusion is: a) the impact of environment protection is growing bigger; b) the attention level to environment protection is getting higher and c) the fiscal allocation to environment protection by the 6 S&T programs is getting more. Further, this paper estimates the budget sum and ratio of “Three Major S&T Programs” to environment protection and its five-year ratio from 2001-2013 for the first time.