An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Local Officials’ Characteristics on Environmental Governance Performance

This paper uses China’s 2010-2018 city-level panel data and the annual average PM2.5 concentration processed by ArcGIS software LASSO regression model to empirically analyze impact of local officials’ characteristics environmental governance performance. The results show that younger officials, municipal party committee secretaries who graduated from ordinary colleges universities, have been vacated, general mayors are more conducive governance; those worked in state-owned enterprises, older, studied secretary a mayor is promoted grassroots economics management, with bachelor’s degree, has graduate committed corruption discipline, school not jurisdiction Environmental governance. research this article help understand role individual differences officials governance, can also provide reference suggestions for cadres personnel reform.