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Intercity personnel exchange is more effective than policy transplantation at reducing water pollution

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Clé publique

radar:r-36461712b31cb703efe636be9fd50cdc

Auteurs

Ziliang Liu · Shengjun Zhu · Canfei He

Année déclarée

2025

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

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2026-11-14T09:36:34.937914+00:00

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2026-11-14T09:36:34.937914+00:00

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Institutions déclarées par la source

Peking University

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

CN

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Severe spatial disparities exist in water pollution and water governance. A popular solution is that lagging cities transplant policies from cities with successful experiences. However, environmental governance is more than policies. Merely copying policies from elsewhere may not generate intended effects. Here this research argues that intercity personnel exchange can be a more effective policy instrument than policy transplantation. We provide the first nationwide estimates in China of the effect of intercity exchange of city leaders on water pollution reduction. Using large-scale micro-level datasets on city leaders’ curriculum vitae, firm behaviors, patents and policy texts, we show that intercity exchange of city leaders leads to a 4.78–15.26% reduction in firm-level water pollution, which contributes to 39.45–57.98% of the national total water pollution reduction from 2006 to 2013. Exchanged city leaders facilitate the diffusion of governance experience across cities and the formulation of intercity cooperation. They are also more likely to initiate new policies to support industrial upgrading. Our findings highlight the importance and potential of intercity personnel exchange as a policy instrument for water governance in particular and green transition in general. Liu and colleagues demonstrate that exchanging personnel between cities is more effective at reducing firm-level water pollution than copying policies from one place to apply them elsewhere. The findings highlight the promise of intercity personnel exchange for improved water governance.

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OPENALEX

https://openalex.org/W4405995718

DOI

10.1038/s44284-024-00181-y

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article

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article

Éditeurs

Springer Science+Business Media

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