Reflection on Collaborative Air Pollution Control in Chengdu-Chongqing Urban Agglomeration, China

Abstract

Urban agglomerations in developing regions are often prone to synergistic dilemmas due to differences in motivation and execution. This paper takes Cheng-Chongqing urban agglomeration in western China as a typical case, and collects 303 policy texts from the government's official website from 2009 to 2020. The policy text analysis method is used to explore the spatio-temporal evolution of policies, policy subjects, policy objectives and policy tools, and to analyze the differences and synergy in air pollution control in depth. The results show that the current coordinated air pollution control in this area is mainly influenced by the order of the superior government and the promotion of the core cities of Chengdu and Chongqing, and shows a gradual and in-depth development trend. However, due to the differences in policy objectives and tools of collaborative governance subjects, the mining of voluntary collaborative governance forces and the use of different policy tools are not deep and perfect, and the equal cooperation among various subjects is still less.