Research on the Impact of Government Environmental Responsibility on Environmental Quality Improvement
Based on the data of 120 environmental protection major cities in China from 2008 to 2019,this paper empirically tests whether the implementation of government environmental responsibility has ef-fectively promoted the improvement of environmental quality and analyzes its impact mechanism.The re-sults show that the implementation of government environmental responsibility has played a significant role in promoting the improvement of environmental quality.Green technology innovation and industrial struc-ture optimization play an intermediary role in this process.From the perspective of different dimensions,compared with the responsibility of ecological environment governance,the responsibility of ecological en-vironment supervision and the responsibility of ecological multi-governance have a more significant effect on the improvement of environmental quality;compared with smoke(powder)dust,the government envi-ronmental responsibility performance has a more significant emission reduction effect on other pollutants.Heterogeneity analysis shows that in areas with high proportion of fiscal expenditure on science and tech-nology and coal consumption,the environmental improvement effect of government environmental respon-sibility is more significant.
government environmental responsibilityenvironmental qualityindustrial structure opti-mizationgreen technology innovation