70-year Evolution of China's Environmental Policy - Based on the Analysis of Policy Text Using Nvivo 11.0

Abstract

Reviewing the development of China's environmental policy is of great significance to China's policy formulation and environmental protection in other developing countries and regions. This research took the environmental policy texts 70 years ago, i.e. from the founding of New China as the research object, and used NVivo 11.0 software to analyze the text encoding. It sorted out and summarized the development process of China's environmental policy: initial stage (1975-1991), difficult stage (1992-2002), exploration stage (2003-2012), and development stage (2013-2018). It shows evolution logic behind value rationality of China's environmental policies, increasing policy suitability, and continuous optimization of policies.