Chinese Industrial Firm Environmental Governance Near 5A Tourist Attractions

Xiancheng Xiong's 2014 enterprise-level dataset examines the relationship between firms' spatial proximity to China's national 5A tourist attractions and corporate environmental governance. The 5.5 KB Excel file contains data on industrial enterprises, their locations, and tourism sites.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between a firm's spatial proximity to 5A attractions and its environmental governance score.
• Model the relationship between proximity to natural-landscape attractions and fixed-asset intensity for environmental governance studies.
• Compare environmental governance outcomes for firms in cities with varying levels of marketization or innovation.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded, linking firm locations to specific national 5A tourist attractions.
• Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant context of tourism-environmental spillovers in China.
• Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license.

Limitations

• Very small 5.5 KB size indicates limited scope and likely a small sample of firms or aggregated results.
• Data is from a single year (2014), limiting analysis of trends or causality over time.
• Unknown row and column structure prevents assessment of dataset granularity and feature completeness.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Xiancheng Xiong

Collection Method

Enterprise-level data combined with geocoded locations of China's national 5A tourist attractions.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

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Geography

China