China's Environmental Governance:Institutional Innovation Leading Practical Innovation—An Investigation Centered on Environmental Protection Target Responsibility System
To address environmental issues arising from modernization,Chinese government has established an environmental protection target responsibility system,forging a path of environmental governance charac-terized by institutional innovation leading practical innovations.Since the 18th CPC National Congress,the central government has strengthened the institutional supply that focus on practical performance through re-sult-oriented institutional innovation.The institutional innovation of both Party committees and governments assume responsibility has provided strong support for environmental governance and accountability.The goal innovation that focuses on improving the quality of the ecological environment has anchored the focus of environmental governance work.The innovation of the"who assesses,who monzitors"environmental monito-ring system has ensured the central government's supervision and assessment of local government environ-mental governance.In the innovative practice of environmental governance in the new era,the environmental protection target responsibility system has formed a closedloop operation of"officials respons-ibility-target setting-performance evaluation",transforming institutional advantages into governance efficie-ncy.From a comparative perspective,the experience of Chinese environmental governance lies in the follo-wing:the people-centered environmental protection concept surpasses the value fragmentation caused by the post-materialistic environmental concepts in the West;the new modern state construction led by the Comm-unist Party of China allows it to avoid governance dilemmas faced by the West due to the mismatch between environmental governance and political Party cycles;the governance model of institutional innovation leadi-ng practical innovation provides a solid institutional guarantee for the continuous advancement of environm-ental governance.