Government Financial Subsidies Research Articles

Breaking through the Key Challenges to Further Electrification of Public Transport in Beijing

In recent years, with the improvement of people's awareness of environmental protection and the increasingly serious problem of urban traffic congestion, the Beijing Municipal Government has actively promoted the development of green transportation, among which electric buses, as a low-carbon, environmentally friendly and energy-saving mode of transportation, are regarded as an important measure to improve air quality and reduce pollution emissions, which has attracted much attention. As electric buses grow, so do the operational challenges of the promoted electric buses, including high initial investment costs, inadequate charging infrastructure, technical limitations in terms of vehicle range and charging speed, and a lack of more supportive policies and regulations. This paper summarizes and analyzes the current situation of electric buses in Beijing. And proposes to solve the challenges encountered in the operation of electric buses by implementing targeted strategies. For example, optimize government financial subsidy measures and implement diversified financial support; The government supports companies to carry out technological innovation and invest in R&D to enhance electric vehicle technology; further promote the construction of charging infrastructure and improve the level of charging services; Effectively deploy battery recycling; promote the integrated development of intelligent vehicles and networking, and accelerate the construction of intelligent public transportation systems; strengthening international cooperation and resource sharing; and the development of a comprehensive policy to promote and facilitate the electrification of public transport in Beijing. Inject new impetus into Beijing's sustainable urban development.

The Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Green Technology Innovation of New Energy Vehicle Enterprises in China

Against the backdrop of increasingly serious global carbon emissions and environmental challenges, new energy vehicles (NEVs), as important low-carbon means of transport, play a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions, enhancing energy efficiency, and promoting sustainable development. However, green technological innovation is under considerable pressure from economic policy uncertainty (EPU), and the exact effects are not well understood. Using panel data on listed companies’ green technological innovation from 2012 to 2022, this study examines the relationship between EPU and green technological innovation in Chinese NEV enterprises. The findings reveal that rising EPU has a significant negative impact on green technological innovation in these companies; however, company ESG performance and government financial subsidies can effectively mitigate this negative impact. Notably, in provinces where public environmental concerns are high, the moderating effect of government subsidies is weaker; while facing EPU, NEV manufacturers rely more on government subsidies for green technological innovation than do parts manufacturers. These findings provide critical insights for guiding NEV enterprises in coping with EPU, advancing green technological innovation, and offering appropriate support and incentives to policymakers.

The operation mechanism of integrating urban and rural passenger transportation and logistics under the strategy of rural revitalization–Case study of Lianhua County, China

To alleviate the pressure of government financial subsidies for urban and rural public transport, this paper analyzes the intrinsic relationship between China's rural revitalization strategy and the integrated development of urban and rural public transport, and proposes an integrated development model of public transport and logistics based on urban and rural public transport. Taking Lianhua County, China, as an example, this paper investigates the operational mechanism and pilot effects of the bus-logistics integration model, and proposes strategies to promote the development of bus-logistics integration. The results of the case study show that the urban–rural bus integration model based on the integration of public transportation and logistics can reduce the deficit of urban–rural bus enterprises by 35.8% compared with the traditional urban–rural bus integration model, which can effectively alleviate the pressure of government financial subsidies. The research results have practical significance for promoting rural revitalization in Lianhua County and alleviating government financial pressure, and also have a certain reference role for the sustainable development of urban and rural public transportation in other small and medium-sized cities.

A difference-in-differences analysis of the impact of government financial subsidies on mobile app usage: a natural experiment during COVID-19

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of financial subsidies provided by the Korean government to help people during economic crises or natural disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we conduct a natural experiment by selecting two adjacent South Korean metropolitan regions, wherein only one received a local government subsidy. Additionally, we utilize Nielson panel data to track residents’ usage of two mobile app categories in these regions. To uncover the causal effect of the financial subsidy on mobile app usage, we develop a difference-in-differences (DiD) model, revealing that the subsidy increased mobile app usage for food delivery and medical service apps, and this increase was relatively steady for medical service apps. Furthermore, in response to the subsidy, low-income individuals used food delivery apps more than mid- and high-income individuals, while those with high incomes utilized medical service apps more than those with low incomes. This study presents important managerial implications for policymakers to alleviate the economic damage caused by natural disasters such as future recurrent pandemics.

Long-term care insurance facilitating integrated care: the "whole-person, full-responsibility" system in Qingdao City of China

Introduction: The ageing of China has brought the burden of long-term care, and some local areas started the piloting of long-term care insurance (LTCI). In response to its rapid ageing situation, Qingdao was the first city in China to establish LTCI, and it became a national pilot city in 2016. Qingdao has explored an integrated LTCI system, featuring "whole-person, full-responsibility", which promotes the integration of health and long-term care service delivery.
 Short description of practice change implemented: LTCI in Qingdao is financed through a variety of channels, including the reallocation of medical insurance funds, government financial subsidies and premiums. The scope of LTCI coverage is centred on people’s needs and facilitate the provision of integrated services, including medical care, nursing care, living care, functional maintenance and spiritual comfort services. It meets the complex care needs of people with long-term disabilities, reduces the use of hospital beds, and promotes the development of the care service market.
 Targeted population and stakeholders: The targeted population is the LTCI participants in Qingdao, especially the severely disabled and dementia population. Stakeholders include medical insurance agencies, medical institutions, long-term and elderly care facilities, families, etc.
 Timeline: Qingdao has been exploring the construction of LTCI since 2012, and in 2018 it introduced the concept of ""whole-person, full-responsibility"" as a new insurance model.
 Highlights: Qingdao has innovatively established a ""whole-person, full-responsibility"" integrated insurance model facilitating the combination of medical, ageing, nursing, rehabilitation and prevention services. The core is a person-centred, integrated approach to care needs, with the same designated care provider taking full responsibility for providing the integrated services.
 The care includes ""special care"", "" institutional care"", ""home care"" and ""ambulatory care"", covering longer-term hospitalization, institutional care and home care.
 People with dementia were also reimbursed for dementia care. In addition, the Dementia Prevention Fund has been established to promote the prevention of dementia.
 Sustainability and transfer-ability: The establishment of LTCI in Qingdao has effectively reduced the use of hospital beds, reduced the burden of medical insurance funds and promoted the development of the service market. It has been scaled up to the whole province of Shandong and became a national model for LCTI with potential of large scale duplication. But the scheme still faces funding pressure as its expansion of benefits.
 Conclusion: LTCI in Qingdao is based on the concept of ""whole-person, full-responsibility"", taking into account the care needs of people in a holistic manner, which addresses the care integration for long-term disabled and dementia population. It also promoted the development and capacity building of providers and reduced the burden of medical system, resulting in a win-win situation for all parties. It provided a model for China to explore the LTCI system and integrated care for the elderly.
 Discussion: To promote the sustainable development of Qingdao's LTCI system as well as the national LTCI system, issues should be considered in the next step including the sustainable fund raising through diversified channels, the supervision of service quality, training of professionals and workforce, and priority given to disability prevention.

The Logic of Change in China’s New Energy Vehicle Fiscal Subsidy Policy

The vigorous development of new energy vehicles as a representative of emerging industries is inseparable from government financial subsidies. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the new energy vehicle industry and the transformation of the national economy into an innovation-driven one, the centralized financial subsidy policy for new energy vehicles has undergone tremendous adjustments marked by the withdrawal of the "national subsidy". Using the historical institutionalism analysis framework, we systematically review the history of China's new energy vehicle subsidy policy, and divide it into four stages: the creation of the pilot stage, rapid expansion, comprehensive promotion, and adjustment and change. From the structural viewpoint, factors such as national economic development, global industrial competition, and changes in the concept of development have, to varying degrees, contributed to the change in the financial subsidy policy for new energy vehicles. From the historical point of view, the financial subsidy policy has been continuously self-reinforcing under the learning effect, coordination effect and adaptive expectation, but also due to the negative incentives for market players to take malicious subsidy fraud to make the contradictions gather and explode, which constitutes a key node of policy change. The current new energy vehicle subsidy policy is in the stage of adjustment and change, the future should be strengthened technology research and development incentives to regulate at the same time to avoid the formation of subsidy dependence of enterprises, and strengthen the subsidy of infrastructure facilities.

Carbon Trading in China Reduces the Dependence of Household Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling on Government Subsidies.

China's enterprises of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling suffer from low profitability that is highly dependent on government subsidies. This low economic gain impedes the sustainable growth of China's WEEE-recycling sector and also adds to the government's financial burden. Prior life-cycle studies have approved the carbon reduction potentials or net carbon credit of recycling WEEE. However, policymakers fail to know whether the revenue from selling carbon credits can offset the government's financial subsidy. We performed life-cycle and cost-benefit analyses for a case recycling enterprise that processes six categories of household appliances. The results show that the reduction potentials of greenhouse gases range from 930-3450 kgCO2e by recycling per ton of household appliances and materials substitution. The recycling enterprise would gain extra revenue ranging from 32 to 160 RMB per ton of appliance if the carbon credits were sold at China's current carbon price, i.e., 45-60 RMB tCO2e-1. Recycling waste refrigerators exhibits the highest carbon revenue, offsetting 6-17% of the government's financial subsidy. Microcomputers, by contrast, indicate the lowest carbon revenue, equivalent to 1-3% of its highest government subsidy. For each household appliance category, when the carbon price reaches 270-600 RMB tCO2e-1, selling carbon credits can fully offset the government's financial subsidy. Constrained by the processing capacity of the case enterprise, optimizations for appliance-recycling composition contribute a 15-25% profit growth to the current economic gains. Interpreting the specific profit depends on the predefined scenarios of carbon price and the substitution rate of the regenerated materials for the virginal ones. Our findings show that raising the profitability of WEEE recycling enterprises through the carbon trading policy contributes to the sustainable growth of China's WEEE-recycling sector while alleviating the government's financial burden.

How does the environmental protection tax law affect firm ESG? Evidence from the Chinese stock markets

The serious environmental pollution problem has been proven to harm people's health and economic development in China. Chinese authorities implemented the Environmental Protection Tax Law (EPTL) in 2018—the first environmental tax law in this country—to solve the problem. Since firms are main objects of this policy, its effect on firms' sustainable development capacity is a worthwhile but not yet discussed question. Therefore, this study adopts the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) to quantify firms' sustainable development capacity and employs the difference-in-differences method to investigate the above research question using a sample of A shares listed in Chinese stock markets from 2014 to 2021. Benchmark regression and robustness tests demonstrated that the EPTL could promote heavily polluting firms' ESG, thus, confirming the Porter hypothesis' existence in China from a micro perspective. We conducted a series of additional tests to provide insight into the effects of the EPTL under different circumstances, and achieved the following important findings: a) although a time-lag effect exists, the policy effect increases over time; b) the boosting effect of this policy is stronger on higher ESG firms than on lower ESG firms; c) innovation compensation effect and government financial subsidies can exponentially increase the EPTL's effect on firm ESG; and d) this policy has an inhibiting effect on politically connected firm's ESG. Based on these findings, we provide theoretical and practical suggestions for academia and policymakers. The Chinese authorities should insist on enforcing the EPTL in the long run, encourage firms on research and development investments, and provide them more financial subsidies, so as to enhance the policy's effect. Moreover, the government should implement some supporting policies to improve the sustainable development capacity of politically connected firms.

Evolutionary game- based optimization of green certificate- carbon emission right- electricity joint market for thermal-wind-photovoltaic power system

With the increasing proportion of renewable energy in the power market, the demands on government financial subsidies are gradually increasing. Thus, a joint green certificate- carbon emission right- electricity multi-market trading process is proposed to study the market-based strategy for renewable energy. Considering the commodity characteristics of green certificates and carbon emission rights, the dynamic cost models of green certificates and carbon rights are constructed based on the Rubinstein game and ladder pricing models. Furthermore, considering the irrational bidding behavior of energy suppliers in the actual electricity market, an evolutionary game based multi-market bidding optimization model is presented. Subsequently, it is solved using a composite differential evolutionary algorithm. Finally, the case study results reveal that the proposed model can increase profits and the consumption rate of renewable energy and reduce carbon emission.

Scenario Analysis of Agricultural Ecological Compensation in Henan Province from the Perspective of Fiscal Expenditure

At present, the main sources of agricultural ecological compensation funds in China are central financial transfer payments and special funds, while local government funds are auxiliary sources. Compensation methods are mainly implemented by specific means such as government financial transfer payments and financial subsidies. Taking Henan Province as an example, based on the perspective of fiscal expenditure, this paper takes agricultural ecological compensation as the research object, and sets benchmark scenarios and development scenarios from near and far periods to predict the government's affordability. According to the GDP, population, fiscal revenue, general public budget expenditure and agricultural expenditure of the whole province, it is predicted that the fiscal expenditure pressure of agricultural ecological compensation will not increase greatly from 2023 to 2027, but with the development of social economy, the fiscal expenditure pressure of agricultural ecological compensation will be higher from 2028 to 2037. Facing this problem, this paper proposes a solution to the financial binding force.

A game theoretic approach for evaluating high-water consumption manufacturing strategies under endogenous government financial subsidies

Motivated by the observed practices of the manufacturing industry and government, in this paper, the operational planning and water-saving strategies for a high-water-consumption (HWC) manufacturer are studied under endogenous government financial intervention in the form of subsidies. In particular, we formulate six multistage game models regarding the governments’ investment cost reduction and purchase price discount policies and the manufacturer’s self-saving and outsourcing-saving strategies. First, in addition to the price and production decisions, the threshold rules of water-saving strategy selection responding to a given subsidy are studied. Second, we explore the impacts of consumer environmental awareness (CEA) and the cost efficiency of water-saving innovations. Furthermore, the two subsidy schemes, namely, cost subsidy and price subsidy, are compared in terms of water-saving efforts, players’ profits and government expenditures. We find that (1) CEA has a positive influence on the players’ equilibrium solutions which are negatively impacted by cost efficiency. (2) The introduction of subsidy policies facilitates the outsourcing of water-saving services instead of self-saving, and the environmental, financial and social objectives of game players can be concurrently fulfilled by using a subsidy mechanism. (3) With respect to the self-saving mode, the price subsidy performs better at the water-saving level, which is opposite to that under the cost subsidy. (4) We also find that the manufacturer’s free riding behavior under the price subsidy brings about a higher quantity of supply and more benefits while maintaining a high price, which leads to a heavier financial burden for the government. Despite the possibility of higher consumption and financial spending, the consumer subsidy still generates higher social welfare.

Equity and efficiency of public hospitals’ health resource allocation in Guangdong Province, China

BackgroundTo better meet people’s growing demand for medical and health services, 21 cities in Guangdong Province were involved in the reform of public hospitals in 2017. This paper evaluates the equity and efficiency of public hospitals’ health resource allocation in Guangdong Province and explores ways to change the current situation.MethodsData were collected from the Guangdong Health Statistical Yearbook 2016–2020 and Guangdong Statistical Yearbook 2017–2021. The Gini coefficient (G), Theil index (T), and health resource density index (HRDI) were used to measure the equity of health resource allocation. An improved three-stage DEA method was applied in efficiency evaluation. The entropy weight method was employed to calculate the weight of different indicators to obtain a comprehensive indicator representing the overall volume of health resources in each city. A two-dimensional matrix was drawn between the HRDI of the comprehensive indicator and efficiency and the per capita government financial subsidies and efficiency to observe the coordination of equity and efficiency across regions.ResultsFrom 2016 to 2020, the G of public hospital, bed, and health technician allocation by population remained below 0.2, while that by geographical area ranged from 0.4 to 0.6; the G of government financial subsidies by population was above 0.4, while that by geographical area was greater than 0.7. The results for T showed that inequality mainly comes from intraregional differences, and the Pearl River Delta contributes most to the overall differences. Although the HRDI of the Pearl River Delta is far greater than that of other regions, obvious differences exist across cities in the region. Only 38.1% of cities were found to be efficient in 2020. The Pearl River Delta was in the first quadrant, and the other three regions were in the third quadrant, accounting for a large proportion.ConclusionThe equity of government financial subsidies allocation was the worst, and there were distinct regional differences in the geographical distribution of health resources. The development of healthcare within the Pearl River Delta was highly unbalanced. The development of healthcare was uneven between the Pearl River Delta, eastern, western, and mountainous regions. In addition, most cities in the eastern, western, and mountainous regions bore the dual pressures of relatively insufficient health resources and inefficiency.

Generation Mechanism of Supply and Demand Gap of Forestry Carbon Sequestration Based on Evolutionary Game: Findings from China

Aiming at the gap between supply and demand in forestry carbon sequestration trading, an evolutionary game model of forest farmers, emission-controlled enterprises (ECEs), and the government is established, where the purchasing behavior of ECEs is divided into offsetting carbon emission and speculation in the carbon emission trade market. By sorting out the stable conditions of each equilibrium point, the causes of the gap between supply and demand are analyzed to explore the coupling mechanism between financial means and market regulation. At last, a numerical case of actual background is applied to verify the rationality of the conclusions. The study found that: (1) The combination of government financial subsidies with the market mechanism is based on subsidies to ECEs. (2) The best time for the government to reduce financial subsidies to forest farmers is when the carbon quota is tightened and more industries are included in the carbon trading system; the best time for the government to reduce subsidies to ECEs is when the carbon quota tightening policy dominates. (3) The reasons for market imbalance in the early and late stages of forestry carbon neutralization mechanism development are different.

Techno-economic coupling model of U-shaped closed-loop geothermal system

Recently, geothermal energy has gained attention from researchers and enterprises as a form of clean energy with zero carbon emissions. U-shaped closed-loop geothermal system (UCLGS) shows great application potential because of its unique well structure. However, there is a big debate on whether they can be economic because no economic evaluation model is available. The method of net present value (NPV) is used in this study to establish a techno-economic coupling model of UCLGS. The proposed model was applied and analyzed in a UCLGS in Xi'an, China. The results indicate the following. (a) The fully implicit transient wellbore heat transfer model established in this study is in good agreement with the field test data, and the relative error is <6%. (b) The outlet temperature and heat extraction power increase with the increase in the horizontal section length, but the rate of increase slows down; the longer the horizontal section length, the higher the drilling cost. The proposed techno-economic model can be used to design an optimal horizontal section length of UCLGS. (c) The service life, government financial subsidies, and drilling costs have a great impact on the profitability of UCLGS projects.

How will tradable green certificates affect electricity trading markets under renewable portfolio standards? A China perspective

Abstract Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are important guarantees to promote renewable energy (RE) consumption. The tradable green certificate (TGC) trading mechanism is a supporting mechanism of RPS, but the rate of TGC trading is low and there is a double-metering problem of RE consumption. With the introduction of new policies in China, we innovatively take the electricity-selling side as the subject of RE consumption responsibility and biomass-based electricity-generation (BEG) projects are considered to participate in TGC trading. To explore the interaction between the TGC market and the electricity market, this paper sets up a day-ahead spot market-trading structure combining both markets under RPS and establishes a market equilibrium model. The established model is solved and validated based on the particle swarm optimization algorithm and the profits of each market player under different influencing factors are analysed. The main conclusions are as follows. (i) The established market structure and model effectively solve the double-metering problem of RE consumption, making the TGC turnover rate reach 82.97 %, greatly improving the market efficiency. (ii) Increased demand for TGC will increase demand for RE electricity. The participation of BEG projects in the TGC market can effectively improve the profit of biomass-based electricity producers (BEPs), reduce the burden of government financial subsidies and will not affect the consumption of wind-based electricity and photovoltaic-based electricity. This will help promote the rapid development of China’s RE, especially the BEG industry. (iii) Among the influencing factors, the increase in renewable-energy consumption responsibility weight and the decrease in electricity-generation cost can increase the profit of BEPs. The decline in TGC price and subsidy price will reduce the profit of BEPs. Finally, we put forward policy recommendations for China’s RPS and TGC trading mechanism. This study can provide a reference for the construction of China’s TGC market and electricity market and the development of RE.

Examining Whether Government Environmental Regulation Promotes Green Innovation Efficiency—Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

Based on the panel data of 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2005 to 2018, this paper uses the SBM-DEA efficiency model with undesired output to measure the green innovation efficiency of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The panel Tobit empirical analysis model was used to quantitatively analyze the impact of three different forms of government environmental regulations on the efficiency of green innovation. The research results show that the government’s mandatory environmental regulations and government financial subsidies for green innovation technology are two regulatory methods that positively promote the efficiency of regional green innovation, but government investment in environmental governance has a negative impact on the efficiency of regional green innovation. Then the study found that this negative impact has a significant inflection point effect: when it exceeds a certain threshold, the negative impact turns into a positive effect. At the same time, the impact of environmental regulations on the efficiency of green innovation has significant regional heterogeneity, and the three environmental regulations have a greater impact on downstream provinces and cities.

Energy analysis and feasibility studies for algal biomass and biofuels

Green fuels are steadily gaining prominence as the energy sector moves towards the alternate energy resources. Fuels derived from biomass conversion can fulfill many folds need including transportation and electricity generation. Conversion technologies and biomass resources are being extensively researched to commercialize the processes. Among all the different biomass feedstocks being studied, algal biomass generation and subsequent conversion to biofuel have gained much importance in recent years due to its faster harvesting, CO2 neutral generation and usage, a lesser requirement for land and large lipid content. However, there are many technical barriers to the growth as well as lipid extraction like huge water and nutrients requirements, proper harvesting environment, energy requirements for drying and economics. These technical and financial aspects are few major challenges in its commercial viability. This paper analyzes the energy and economic requirements for algal biomass and biofuel production. The paper studied both open ponds and closed photo-bioreactors (PBR) and appreciates that “open ponds” are more viable commercially compared to PBRs. Major government policy interventions, financial subsidies and industry acceptances are important in deciding the future of algal-based green fuel technologies.

Sustainable development goals and firm carbon emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Using a difference-in-differences approach, this paper investigates the impact of changes in China's sustainable economic development goals on the energy conservation and emissions reductions behavior of Chinese firms. On average, incorporating emissions reduction targets into the long-term development plans produced significant effects in terms of energy conservation and emissions reduction, reducing energy consumption intensity between 2008 and 2011 by 1.39% and carbon emission intensity by 2.37%. The effects were mainly achieved through two long-term mechanisms, namely, optimizing energy consumption structure and increasing investment in green technologies. Both reflect firms' preference to take long-term measures rather than temporary ones. We also found that non-state-owned firms, firms without government financial subsidies, and firms with high external financing dependence, put more effort into reducing their carbon emissions in order to comply with the adjusted goals.

Research on Financing Mechanism of Long-Term Care Insurance in Xiamen, China: A System Dynamics Simulation.

Objective: This study aimed to predict the changing trend of long-term care insurance (LTCI) funds by clarifying the linkage between revenue and expenditure and its influencing factors and to provide evidence for the establishment of a sustainable LTCI financing mechanism in China.Method: We have taken Xiamen as an example, based on the data from Xiamen Special Economic Zone Yearbook and field survey. The changing trend of LTCI funds is predicted from 2020 to 2030 based on the system dynamics model (SDM) of the LTCI financing system. Also, through literature research and expert consultation, we found the intervention goals and analyzed their impact on the balance of LTCI funds.Results: In the current situation, according to the forecast, the revenue and the expenditure of the LTCI funds will increase year by year from 2020 to 2030 in Xiamen, an increase of about 3.7 times and 8.8 times, respectively. After 2029, the expenditure will exceed the revenue of the LTCI funds and the balance will turn into a deficit. From the perspective of fund revenue, by adjusting the individual payment rate, government financial subsidies, and enterprise payment rate, the proportion of LTCI funds can be increased to alleviate the balance deficit under the original forecast. On the contrary, from the perspective of fund expenditure, increasing the proportion of reimbursement and the rate of severe disability will lead to an increase in fund expenditure. In this case, the balance of the funds will turn into a deficit, 7 years in advance. In addition, it was found that the severe disability rate has the greatest impact on the balance of funds.Discussion: The SDM can objectively reflect the structure and the behavior of the LTCI financing system and has good applicability. By increasing the individual payment rate, government financial subsidies, and enterprise contribution rate, reasonable setting of the reimbursement ratio of nursing services, especially for the prevention of disability among the elderly, to maintain the sustainability of the funds. This study provides strong evidence for policymakers to establish a sustainable LTCI system in China.

PNS57 Impacts of Income Resources on Informal Care Usage in England

Although various government funding resources are eligible to dependent residents to improve their availability to a professional care service in England, the effectiveness of these financial supports is not verified yet. This research explores whether different income resources influence the informal care choice of care receivers. With 2350 observations in Health Survey for England from 2013 to 2017, Probit model is used to test the significance of various income types on care choice and duration. Dependent individuals having the earnings from work and the personal pension tend to ask for informal care with 49.3% (p=0.015) and 26.5% (p=0.045) possibilities, respectively. But receivers with Income Support prefer not to select informal help (-0.501, p=0.059). On the other hand, residents need informal care for a longer time if they own state pension (0.861, p=0.000), interests from savings or investment (0.416, p=0.000) and other allowance (1.069, p=0.000). Care receivers who gain earnings from work and the personal pension are more likely to choose informal help. By contrast, Income Support, a government financial subsidy to low-income severely disabled residents, successfully improves their accessibility on professional care services. Moreover, dependent individuals with state pension, interest income or other allowance report a longer informal care duration. However, some income types such as house benefit cannot be verified significant with both the choice and the long duration of informal care. These findings provide evidences to support the reform of public care system in the respect of considering impacts from financial structures of care receivers.