Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2026, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (1): 100-111.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2026.01.010

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The Influence Mechanism of Cross-regional “Cooperative Response to Accidents” Policy on Production Safety Governance Performance: Empirical Evidence from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

Mingyu WU, Xuesong GUO   

  1. School of Public Policy and Management,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an 710049,China
  • Received:2024-06-02 Online:2026-01-25 Published:2026-01-27

Abstract:

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, which has been rapidly advancing regional integration, pioneered the implementation of cross-regional “cooperative response to accidents” policy targeting accidents and disasters in 2017. This initiative provided practical experience for cross-regional collaborative governance in production safety. Grounded in theories of holistic governance and regulatory fluctuation, this study constructs a theoretical framework to analyze how “cooperative response to accidents” influences production safety governance performance. Utilizing inter-provincial panel data from China for the period 2011-2023, this study conducts an empirical analysis of the policy’s effects and its mechanisms by using the difference-in-differences method. The findings reveal that the “cooperative response to accidents” policy significantly reduced both the number of fatalities from production safety accidents and the mortality rate per hundred million yuan of output value in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, without inducing a performance crowding-out effect on economic growth, indicating that the policy’s optimization of production safety governance performance is sustainable in the long term. “cooperative response to accidents” influences industrial enterprise behavior through flexible safety regulation and optimizes production safety governance performance by prompting governments to reallocate resources towards safety priorities.

Key words: production safety, cooperative response to accidents, cross-regional governance, government performance, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

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