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From the analysis of the research hotspots, both in China and internationally, great importance is attached to the research on green finance, and the research on green financialization has broad prospects. The core group of authors on green finance research in China has taken shape, whereas the core group of authors of green finance research in the rest of the world has not yet taken shape. There is a lack of close cooperation and a relatively low level of communication among important domestic green finance research institutions, and a certain scale of cooperation network has been formed among influential international institutions. The major countries for influential international green finance research are Singapore, France, Switzerland, Canada and Saudi Arabia, and the international influence of China\u2019s green finance needs to be improved. Both domestic and foreign countries attach great importance to the balance between economic growth and the low-carbon green transition. China attaches more importance to macroeconomic development and strategic transition, but internationally, the trend is toward microcorporate green performance, policy optimization and market innovation. The research focus of green finance has achieved in three stages of evolution, namely, green industry in the early stage, green services in the middle stage and green strategy in the near future. International green finance research focuses on climate change, market players, government performance, social responsibility sharing, etc. In particular, reducing the cost of green development is the focus of international green finance. The domestic focus is on climate risk, carbon neutrality, carbon peak, low-carbon transition, carbon reduction, and green transition themes. Internationally, the focus is on financial performance, decisions, green finance, credit, drivers, quality, socially responsible investment and other topics. Considering the practical implementation of green finance in China, the governance logic of China\u2019s green finance policy consists of five main categories: policy belief, policy objective, policy tool, policy feedback and policy cycle. In the future, the development and improvement of China\u2019s green finance policy should achieve breakthroughs in the following aspects: first, guiding the main body of green finance policy to firmly establish policy beliefs; second, improving the clarity of green finance policy objectives; third, enhancing the overall effectiveness of the governance of green financial policy instruments; fourth, strengthening the green finance incentive policy feedback system construction; and fifth, improving the quality of green finance policy cycles.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph20010202","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]],"date-time":"2022-12-23T04:24:53Z","timestamp":1671769493000},"page":"202","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Knowledge Ecology and Policy Governance of Green Finance in China\u2014Evidence from 2469 Studies"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Junjie","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Administration, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"},{"name":"Hebei Public Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2072-1433","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Dai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hebei Public Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"},{"name":"Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 300712, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Meng","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Administration, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"},{"name":"Hebei Public Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bangfan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Administration, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"},{"name":"Hebei Public Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Qinhuangdao 066004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"18","article-title":"On building China\u2019s Green Finance System","volume":"20","author":"Ma","year":"2015","journal-title":"Financ. 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