This paper evaluates the impact of China's natural gas pipeline projects (NGPPs) on air pollution reduction, by using national data of pollutant emissions of over 800,000 institute-level observations from 1998 to 2010. The difference-in-differences approach shows that the introduction of...

Since the 9th Five Year Plan (FYP) period (1996-2000), the Chinese central government began to adopt the total emissions control (TEC) policy, a target-based environmental regulation which set emission reduction targets for designated pollutants. The policy became highly binding for local...