Government Environmental Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance: Evidence from China

Government environmental information disclosure (GEID) is a key policy instrument in governance. Local governments China are improving the level of information, but does disclosed by local reflect existing state ecological environment? This paper analyzes correlation between GEID and performance verifies whether or not can actual environment conditions. Based on data from Chinese cities, this adopts multiple regression method, results show that as whole, higher GEID, better performance; relationship two has significant regional differences. In eastern China, performance. central western significant. addition, it should be noted emission intensity water pollutants all regions. study contributes to further clarifying effectiveness identifying breakthrough for optimization policies faced with dilemma serious pollution urgent economic development needs.