Research On Synergistic Effect Of Energy Saving And Emission Reduction Policy In Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is the third comprehensive regional unit in China except the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta。It is also the region with the strongest economic strength in the North of China.It is one of the regions with the greatest potential for China’s future economic development.Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cooperative Development is one of China’s three major national strategies.It has been supported by national policies and has bright prospects.However,the current Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region faces outstanding problems such as the continuous deterioration of the ecological environment,the unbalanced development of the urban system,and the widening gap between the urban and rural areas,especially the increasingly serious problem of haze in northern China,which seriously threatens people’s health.The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has a vast territory and has a long history of unbalanced economic development.Beijing has a "big city disease," and Tianjin and Hebei are facing bottlenecks in industrial transformation and upgrading.In order to solve the increasingly serious energy and environmental problems in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,the government issued a large number of energy-saving and emission-reduction policies.However,the three places could not communicate effectively due to the constraints of administrative divisions.There are conflicting problem in the energy conservation and emission reduction policies in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.In order to solve the energy and environmental issues and achieve the policy goal,it is necessary for Beijing,Tianjin,and Hebei to step out of the regional barriers and to form a scientific and sustainable collaborative development path.The purpose of this paper is to study the synergies of energy conservation and emission reduction policies in Beijing.Tianjin and Hebei.We reviewed domestic and foreign relevant literature on the synergetic development theory of regional cooperation and energy-saving and emission reduction policies,and then established the theoretical basis for the research.This paper quantifies the energy conservation and emission reduction policy system,and uses the planning policy and the implementation policy as the subsystems to obtain a policy synergy.Finally we analyzed the coordination of energy conservation and emission reduction policies and found out the reasons behind it.The results of the study indicate that during the 19-year period from 1998 to 2016.the coordinated state of the energy conservation and emission reduction policies was not very satisfactory,and the general trend was even declining.The main reasons for the low degree of’synergies between energy conservation and emission reduction policies in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region include inadequate policy systems,unbalanced development among regions,fragmented planning policy objectives and implementation of government.and inadequate policy incentives.The coordination of planning policies and implementation policies can effectively promote the realization of regional energy-saving and emission reduction targets.However,the decision-making mechanism for policy coordination,the coordination mechanism among various departments in various regions,and the government’s energy-saving emission reduction assessment mechanism have not been perfected.Therefore,for the formulation and implementation of the energy conservation and emission reduction policy in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,it is necessary to consider the issue of improving the unbalanced industrial development between regions and how to get out of the constraints of the "administrative region" and form the development mode and path of the "economic zone".