The Analysis of Local Government Behavior in China’s Wind Power Development: A Case Study of Inner Mongolia

• Main Authors: Wang, Wan-Jen, 王婉臻
• Other Authors: Wang, Jenn-Hwan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3gtk9j

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 106 === Global climate change has been profoundly affecting the survival and development of humankind. In order to improve the deterioration of the domestic environment and respond to the pressure of international carbon reduction, the Chinese government has actively incorporated environment issues into the new policy agenda. Furthermore, the government has also vigorously developed wind power generation to reduce long-term dependence on coal-fired power generation structure. Although China has led the world in wind power installation, it has faced a myriad of problems and difficulties while it is rapidly developing. Different from most previous studies focusing on the central government’s actions and ignoring the role and functions of the local government’s implementation of policies, this paper aims at “local government” as the research subject. Through the case study of Inner Mongolia, this paper finds that the local government has subsumed the requirements of environmental policies into the context of local development. The local government utilizes “environmental policies” and “land resources” to tie the generation companies to the local construction of wind farms, and then through the established “wind power scale” and “industrial policies” to attract the investment of wind power equipment suppliers. The introduction of investment has further formed a complete industrial chain in the local area. This act not only satisfies the central government’s goal of utilizing wind power as environment betterment, but also brings economic growth and tax revenue to the local economy, which is in line with the “environmentally bundled economic interest.” However, the result of random expansion of wind farms by the local government of Inner Mongolia has not only caused a mismatch between power supply construction and grid transmission, but also led to the increasing problem of wind curtailment.