CSR Blog: How Local Politics Might Undermine China’s Environmental Policy Ambition

By Zhuoran Li Since the “Reform and Open Up” that began in 1978, China has achieved magnificent economic development. China’s real annual GDP grew 9.5 percent on average from 1979 to 2018. The World Bank describes the growth of China as “the fastest sustained expansion by a major economy in history.”[1] The economic growth not …