%0 Journal Article
%T Regional Supervision Centres for Environmental Protection in China: Functions and Limitations
%A Qingzhi Huan
%J Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
%D 2011
%I German Institute of Global and Area Studies, (GIGA)
%X China¡¯s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), has set up six regional Supervision Centres for Environmental Protection (SCEPs) in recent years. The creation of the SCEPs reflects the ¡°green will¡± of Chinese government, to reverse the ever-worsening environmental situation throughout China by strengthening vertical supervision of the environmental laws and policies enforcement. A primary analysis focusing on the South China Supervision Centre (SCSC) has clearly shown, however, that the SCEPs today can only perform well in the concrete or ¡°small¡± tasks ¨C most of them designated or handed over by the MEP ¨C rather than in the complicated or ¡°big¡± issues. To make the SCEPs do more and better, the most desirable but radical policy choice is to reshape them into fully authorised regional ¡°sub-bureaus¡± of the MEP.
%K Political science
%K Supervision
%K SCEP
%K environmental policy
%K implementation
%K functions
%K 320
%K China
%K Contemporary
%U http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/457