Building Innovative Public-Private Partnerships for Rural Environment Governance in China

One of the major current environmental prevention and control challenges in China is the pollution risks in rural areas. Along with the economic development and urbanization,countryside has become the main battlefield of pollution control and prevention in China. In recent years,Public-Private Partnership(PPP) route has become one of the commonly accepted procurement strategies in developed and developing countries in the field of infrastructure projects. Hence,it is suggested that the PPP route could be adopted in rural environmental governance as an innovative governance strategy. The most valuable contribution of the PPP has been filling the gap of lack of implementation by governments. However,due to the peculiarity and complexity of rural environmental governance,it is argued that current approaches to deliberative rural environmental governance concerning public-private partnerships need to acknowledge insights from both the economic theory and open source theory concerning the communication of environmental and political norms so that they can be successfully transferred to rural environmental governance.