Anyone who researches or follows Chinese energy and environmental policy knows that the Chinese government is filled with a large number of overlapping ministries, administrations, institutes, think tanks, research groups, etc. Just keeping the acronyms straight can be a nightmare, not to mention understanding organizationally how they are all related to each other.
Several months ago, I launched a personal project to map out the organizational relationship between all Chinese government and government-affiliated institutions with influence over national energy and environmental policy. I showed a first draft, tailored for fuel quality policy creation, at a presentation I gave in April (slide 16). It received such a positive response that I set out to expand and release something publicly via this blog.
I’m very happy now to introduce version 1.0 of the Chinese Government Map for National Energy and Environmental Policy. Here’s a partial screen capture; click to go to the map itself:
Version 1.0 is functionally static (with the exception of pop-up names), although I intend to update it regularly. Accordingly, I need your feedback, particularly on identifying which institutions are missing. To make a suggestion, please either leave a comment below or e-mail me at livefrombeijing at gmail dot com. When suggesting an organization, please provide as much information as possible, including acronym, Chinese and English names, website, and evidence that it is an influential national government or government-affiliated institution. I would also appreciate it if you would pass along any related research reports or diagrams.
I look forward to hearing your feedback, and hope that you find the map to be a useful tool.
Hi Vance, great work! One could add China Standard Certification Centre. Their role has somewhat been reduced, however they implement relevant projects in the energy sector.
http://www.cecp.org.cn
One could also think to map the responsibilities somehow, showing what an organisation is responsible and the overlap with others. As an initial idea one could structure this like this graph showing the various regional organisations in Asia (ASEAN, SARC, APEC, Shanghai Cooperation, ….) and their overlapping member. I’ll try to source this as an example. However, one needs to come up with a list of key responsibilities/ elements of national energy and environmental policies to map the institutions respectively.
here u find an example of a map showing overlapping … http://www.apcss.org/core/Library/CSS/…/RegionalOrganizationsAzizian.ppt
Vance,
Great stuff. Worth adding ACCA21 under the MOST arm?
Has CRED disappeared/been decomissioned? and what about SERC and SDCR?… man this is confusing.
Eh, sorry, CRED i believe is Comission for renewable energy development, SERC is State Electricity Regulatory Comission and SDCR is State Commission of Development and Reform
Hi Vance, great work! One could add NDRC National Energy Conservation Center. http://gjjnzx.ndrc.gov.cn/
I also have 4 institutions that play an crucial role in China’s energy-environmental governance, and could be added to the chart:
BEEST-MOHURD, Building Energy Efficiency and Science and Technology Department, policy-makers for building energy efficiency.
http://www.cin.gov.cn/zcfg/jswj/jskj/
CEEB, important for building energy efficiency landscape.
http://www.cin.gov.cn/zcfg/jswj/jskj/
CUCD, who does research and engineering for waste and waste water management.
http://www.cucd.cn/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/index.html
CAUPD, it’s important to take energy/environmental considerations into their urban planning work.
http://www.caupd.com/index.asp
Hi everyone, thanks for the comments. I just updated the map to include many of these suggestions. A few responses:
Uwe: I added CSC, thanks!
James: I added ACCA21, thanks!
Jonas: I added CRED, thanks! SERC was already on the map, and SDRC is now NDRC.
Li Yuqi: I added the GJJNZX. I’m not sure what their official English name is, so I used the Chinese pinyin. Thanks for the suggestion!
Ding Ding: BEEST appears to be a division of MOHURD, so I’m leaving that out for now. (In theory the map features independent institutions.) I don’t see any more detailed info about CEEB in the link you sent. Do they have their own website, or do you know the Chinese name? CUCD looks to be an enterprise (企业), so I left it off, but please clarify if I am misinterpreting. Finally, I added CAUPD, thanks!
Best,
Vance