英文摘要 |
China has witnessed rapid urbanization and economic development at the cost of air pollution and environmental degradation since the Reform and Opening up. Beijing was once one of the most severely polluted cities. After more than 20 years of air pollution governance and improvement, Beijing’s air pollution problem has been fundamentally solved. Taking Beijing’s blue sky governance and Coal-to-Gas Infrastructure Project (CGIP) as a case, this research discusses the dynamic operation process of Beijing’s air pollution control through qualitative research and second-hand data method to analyze the discussion and construction of the advancement of CGIP. We found that the remarkable results of Beijing’s air governance are the result of the continuous adjustment and implementation of environmental governance policies under the vision of“Bring back Beijing’s Blue Sky in.”Additionally, Beijing dynamically adjusts the attention distribution of four discourses: environment, economy, people’s livelihood and accidents, to keep the CGIP in harmony with other policy objectives. In addition, through the construction of a sustainable world city and the urban imagination of building“a Human Community with a Shared Future”as differentiation discourses for different places, it has turned Beijing into a benchmark and demonstration for the governance and air pollution governance and improvement in other cities. What’s more, dialogue with the research on“localization”and“tenure system”in China’s governance system, Beijing’s air governance experience reveals the process of local governments implementing long-term and trans-regional air control policies, which helps to re-examine the logic of China’s environmental governance and re-examine the contradictory relationship between China’s environmental governance and political performance evaluation. |