River Chief System,Policy Implementation Environment,and Sustainable Water Resources Utilization
Using water resources data of each prefecture-level city/state in Jiangxi,Fujian,Anhui,and Yunnan Provinces from 2011 to 2022,this paper empirically demonstrates the impact of the river chief system(RCS)on the sustainable water resources utilization in each region by regression discontinuity design and heterogeneity analysis.Results show that:(1)the impact of the RCS on sustainable water resources utilization has a certain time lag and shows some heterogeneous in different regions,generally the governance effect reaches its best after it is implemented 2-3 years.(2)The effectiveness of river head system heterogeneity governance is related to the policy implementation environment.Regions with high policy,social,natural,and technological environments have better governance effects.Jiangxi mainly has a positive regulatory effect on so-cial and natural environments,Anhui has a positive regulatory effect on policy and technological environments,Fujian has a positive regulatory effect on policy,social,natural,and technological environments,and Yunnan only has a positive regulatory effect on policy environments.
RCSsustainable water resources utilizationsystem governance effectregression discontinuitypolicy imple-mentation environment