Analysis of Provincial Environmental Performance Trend in China

Environmental performance is a comprehensive reflection of the overall level of environmental protection in a country and a region. Establishing an environmental performance assessment index system reflecting China’s development stage and national conditions is the core content of China’s environmental management transformation and ecological civilization system construction, and is also an urgent and important task for China to actively implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). CAEP has been working on environmental performance evaluation since 2006 and successively participated in many projects. This study is one of these projects. Based on the official statistics released by China, this study systematically carries out dynamic assessment of environmental performance assessment changes in China during the past 10 years, demonstrating the efforts and achievements of China’s environmental protection and ecological civilization construction, and the law of heterogeneous development in sub-national regions. This is an important way for the international community to deeply understand the complexity of China's environmental problems and the achievements of environmental protection efforts. It is also a good way for China’s ecological civilization stories to spread to the world.