Han Sun

Global climate change has brought carbon emissions reduction into the global spotlight, and the Chinese government has formulated emissions reduction policies and set targets for carbon peaking and neutralization. This article explores the relationship between policy effectiveness and public participation from the perspective of public choice theory. The article reviews carbon emission reduction research, analyzes the roles of various parties in political decision-making and the current status of China's policies, and emphasizes the importance of public awareness and participation in achieving climate goals. Finally, it proposes optimized policy recommendations, such as improving the carbon market, developing green finance, differentiating policy design, promoting demonstration projects and encouraging community and NGO participation.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of new quality productivity on the distribution of residents' income. By constructing an econometric model, this study empirically examines the impact of new quality productivity on the distribution of residents' income and its mechanism of action using panel data from 31 provinces in China from 2010 to 2022. The results show that new quality productivity can significantly increase the level of income distribution among residents, and this conclusion still holds after considering the endogeneity problem and conducting a series of robustness tests. The mediation effect analysis further reveals that the new quality productivity contributes to the improvement of the income distribution of residents through increasing innovation incentives. Heterogeneity analysis shows that new quality productivity has a stronger effect on the income distribution of residents in the eastern, central and northeastern regions, and a weaker effect on the western region.