Ecological transfer payment system based on market-oriented compensation mechanism has gradually be-come an important financial tool to coordinate the green development of local governments.From the perspective of government competition,this paper uses China's provincial panel data to build a spatial autoregressive model to iden-tify the strategic competitive behavior characteristics of local governments in the supply of basic public services.Moreover,this paper also texts the effect of ecological transfer payment on the supply of basic public services and dis-cusses the influence of ecological transfer payment on the spatial strategic competition behavior of local governments.It is found that the supply of basic public services between local governments in China has a strategic interaction be-havior of"imitation competition"in space.Ecological transfer payment not only has an incentive effect on the supply of basic public services,but also strengthens the strategic competition behavior between regions,and the influence weakens from the central and western region to the eastern region.Based on this,this stud yproposes policy sugges-tions such as establishing a positive competitive environment,improving the transfer payment system,and strengthen-ing the assessment framework.
Ecological Transfer PaymentBasic Public ServicesGovernment CompetitionSpatial Autoregressive Model