Capability Evaluation on Environmental Safety Management and Regionalization in China

This paper establishes an index system from seven aspects including environment system, environmental technology, economic level, qualified environmental protection personnel, public participation, environmental laws and regulations and environmental safety. These indices are used in quantitative evaluation on the comprehensive capability of environmental safety management and the corresponding grade division. The results indicate that Tibet, Hainan, Guizhou and Jiangxi are the four regions with the lowest values, while Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Zhejiang are the four regions with the highest values; and that the comprehensive capability of environmental safety management is basically distributed in such a rule that the eastern region is higher than the central and west regions, and North China region and coastal region are higher than inland region. As for the comprehensive capability of environmental safety management, the two cities, i.e. Beijing and Shanghai are Grade-A regions. The proportion of Grade-A and Grade-B regions accounts for 29.0% of the total 31 provinces (municipalities or autonomous regions) of the whole country, while that of Grade-C region accounts for 64.5%, and that of Grade-D and Grade-E regions accounts for 6.5%.