5.1 Evaluation of the GFG implementation
In the Loess Plateau of China, the primary goal of GFG is to curb the
increasingly severe soil erosion, thereby reducing the sediment content
in the Yellow River. As an ecological policy, the GFG has had a positive
and far-reaching impact on the ecological environment in relevant
regions over the past 20 years. Yan’an is considered to be one of the
cities with the most serious soil erosion in the Loess Plateau. The
vegetation restoration brought by GFG has significantly controlled soil
erosion in the city. However, the research in this paper shows that
although the GFG plays an obvious role in soil conservation, there are
problems of policy dislocation and low efficiency in the specific
implementation process. In some areas, the implementation of GFG has
cost a lot, but the SCE is very limited. This not only exposes the
external manifestation of local government’s one-sided pursuit of
vegetation restoration effect in the process of policy implementation
but also reflects the failure of the superior government to make
sufficient analysis and judgment on the key implementation regions of
GFG in the process of macro-control. The result is an imbalance in input
and output, and a waste of resources and capital. These problems need to
be adjusted and changed in the future. It also shows that the
implementation of GFG in the future still has great significance.