China Industrial Environmental Governance and Tourism Proximity Estimates

Xiancheng Xiong's research dataset from figshare provides IV estimates examining the relationship between industrial enterprises' proximity to China's national 5A tourist attractions and corporate environmental governance in 2014. The 9.5 KB Excel file contains tabular data on environmental governance, operating costs, and fixed-asset intensity linked to tourism spillovers. It supports analysis of how attraction type and city characteristics moderate the environmental governance of nearby firms.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between firm proximity to 5A attractions and corporate environmental governance scores.
• Model the relationship between spatial proximity and lower operating costs attributed to shared infrastructure.
• Investigate how fixed-asset intensity mediates the link between tourism proximity and stronger environmental governance.
• Compare the strength of environmental spillovers between natural-landscape attractions and other attraction types.
• Examine how city-level innovation or marketization metrics moderate the primary relationship.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded, linking enterprise locations to specific national 5A tourist attractions.
• Findings are supported by IV-based estimates and a range of robustness checks as noted in the source description.
• Explicitly covers the year 2014, providing a clear temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Very small scale at 9.5 KB, indicating a limited number of observations or summary-level data.
• Temporal coverage is restricted to a single year (2014), limiting longitudinal analysis.
• Enterprise-level data details and specific column definitions are not provided in the input.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Xiancheng Xiong.

Collection Method

Constructed from enterprise-level data and geocoded locations of China's national 5A tourist attractions.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, but underlying data is from 2014.

Geography

China