“…The third type of investigation is rather rich, and academic discussion has focused on the in uencing considerations of haze pollution. Local government competition (Zhang et al, 2020), public participation Qu et al, 2021), environmental regulation (Zhou et al, 2021), economic development (Feng and Yuan, 2021a;Gan et al, 2020), environmental information disclosure , industrial agglomeration and structure Shi et al, 2020) and trade openness are often considered to be closely related to haze pollution changes (Xu et al, 2020). Notably, the development of digital technology is triggering the fourth industrial revolution in the world (Gnangnon, 2020).…”