Research on Theoretical Mechanism and Promotion Path of Digital Economy Driving China’s Green Development under “Double Carbon” Background

Abstract

(1) Background: Under the background of building a new pattern of “double cycle” development, the green meaning of the digital economy is highly valued. The innovative feature of the digital economy is forming a new economic growth pole, and gradually becomes the driving force for China’s economic restructuring and green development; (2) methods: this paper empirically tests whether the digital economy can promote green development by using various econometric models based on panel dataset with 30 provinces from 2011 to 2019 in mainland China and measuring the development level of the digital economy and the greening index; (3) results: it is found that the digital economy can directly boost green development in greening degree of economic growth, resources and environment-carrying potential, and government policy support. The digital economy’s influence on green development has an inverted U-shaped trend; environmental control is an effective regulatory variable with a substitution effect on green development. With an obvious regional heterogeneity, the digital economy promotes green development; the digital economy can greatly affect green growth through technical innovation through mechanism analysis. The robustness test supports the above conclusion; (4) conclusions: the findings provide a foundation for multi-party policymakers to effectively formulate and implement policies for the digital economy that encourage green growth.

Research on the impact of digital economy on Regional Green Technology Innovation: Moderating effect of digital talent Aggregation

“…Due to green technology innovation (GTI) is a type of technology innovation that adheres to ecosystem rules (Li 2021 ) and saves resources and energy (Khan et al 2020 ), and is committed to solving, avoiding, or reducing environmental problems (Xu et al 2019 ); the 19th NPC requires constructing a market-oriented green technology innovation(GTI) system (Dai et al 2022 ). The digital economy gives a new impetus for developing GTI (Feng et al 2023 ). Therefore, it is crucial to research the relationship between the digital economy and GTI to deploy the Chinese digital economy and realize the “double carbon” targets.…”

Spatial Imbalance, Dynamic Evolution and Convergence of the Digital Economy: Analysis Based on Panel Data of 278 Cities in China

“…Although scholars produced rich qualitative research achievements regarding the digital economy, the measurement of the digital economy has always been the focus of the academic community and has been improved [15]. Not only have scholars attached importance to measurement but relevant organizations and government agencies have also done a lot of research on scale measurement and macroeconomic statistics [16]. At present, there are two kinds of commonly used digital economic data: the first is to use the digital economic index issued by authoritative institutions, and the second is to reconstruct the digital economy indicator system for measurement [17][18][19].…”

“…The indicators include infrastructure, innovation ability, development environment and digital application [20]. However, scholars still have no consensus on the digital economy indicator system, and the virtual and highly permeable characteristics of the digital economy make it more difficult to count [16]. In terms of measurement methods, scholars use various methods to calculate the digital economy index.…”

Spatio–Temporal Evolutionary Features and Drivers of Green Competitiveness of Cities Surrounding the Yellow River

“…A few other scholars believe that to enhance industrial competitiveness, it is necessary to improve the rationality and sophistication of the industrial structure [34,35], to construct an institutional system to match the regional green development, and to provide an institutional environment for green innovation of the industry [36]. Meanwhile, regional green competitiveness is affected by factors such as the digital economy [37], industrial agglomeration [38][39][40], public pressure [41], human capital [42], the environmental management system [43], technological innovation [44], urbanization [45], and environmental policy [46]. At the same time, the factors affecting regional green competitiveness exhibit spatial variations and peculiarities [47].…”