Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Research on the Digital Economy
2.2. Research on the Green Economy
2.3. The Relationship of the Digital Economy and the Green Economy
3. Theoretical Analysis and Research Hypotheses
3.1. The Impact of Digital Economy Development on the GTFP
3.2. The Threshold Effect of Environmental Regulation
4. Variable Selection and Measurement
4.1. Dependent Variable
4.2. Independent Variables
4.3. Threshold Variables
4.4. Control Variables
4.5. Data Sources and Descriptive Statistics
4.6. Model Construction
5. Analysis and Discussion
5.1. Regression Result Analysis
5.1.1. Empirical Facts
5.1.2. Regression Analysis
The Impact of the Digital Economy on the GTFP
Analysis by Regions
5.1.3. Threshold Effect Analysis
5.1.4. Endogeneity Analysis
5.2. Discussion
5.2.1. The Impact of Digital Economy Development on the GTFP
5.2.2. The Differences between Regions
5.2.3. The Threshold Effect of Environmental Regulation
6. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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First Tier Indicators | Second Tier Indicators | Third Tier Indicators | First Tier Indicators | Second Tier Indicators | Third Tier Indicators |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Digital industrialization | Infrastructure | a. Internet broadband access users | Data valorization | Trading market | k. Big Data exchange |
b. Internet broadband access ports | Industrial digitalization | Agricultural marginal contribution of digital technology | l. Added value of the primary industry | ||
c. Length of long-distance optical cable | Industrial marginal contribution of digital technology | m. Added value of the secondary industry | |||
d. Length of optical cable lines | Service industry marginal contribution of digital technology | n. Added value of the tertiary industry | |||
Software and services | e. Software product revenue | Digital governance | Multi-agent participation | o. Number of government websites | |
f. Software service revenue | p. Number of government microblogs | ||||
Internet | g. Number of webpages | q. Amount of government news in public media | |||
h. Number of domain names | |||||
i. Number of Internet users | |||||
j. Internet penetration |
Bartlett Test | Kaiser-Meyer-Olin | |
---|---|---|
Chi square | 6901.783 | 0.839 |
Df | 136 | |
Sig. | 0.000 |
Component | Characteristic Value | Variance | Cumulative Variance Contribution | Component | Characteristic Value | Variance | Cumulative Variance Contribution |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7.8880 | 5.1215 | 0.4640 | 10 | 0.2755 | 0.0760 | 0.9632 |
2 | 2.7665 | 0.5857 | 0.6267 | 11 | 0.1995 | 0.0459 | 0.9750 |
3 | 2.1809 | 1.2839 | 0.7550 | 12 | 0.1536 | 0.0246 | 0.9840 |
4 | 0.8969 | 0.2228 | 0.8078 | 13 | 0.1290 | 0.0447 | 0.9916 |
5 | 0.6741 | 0.0984 | 0.8474 | 14 | 0.0843 | 0.0599 | 0.9966 |
6 | 0.5757 | 0.1519 | 0.8813 | 15 | 0.0244 | 0.0028 | 0.9980 |
7 | 0.4239 | 0.0380 | 0.9062 | 16 | 0.0216 | 0.0090 | 0.9993 |
8 | 0.3859 | 0.0784 | 0.9289 | 17 | 0.0126 | . | 1.0000 |
9 | 0.3075 | 0.0320 | 0.9470 |
Variables | Comp1 | Comp2 | Comp3 | Variables | Comp1 | Comp2 | Comp3 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a | 0.3252 | 0.1889 | −0.0839 | j | 0.2040 | −0.2972 | −0.1901 |
b | 0.3316 | 0.1339 | −0.1146 | k | 0.1981 | −0.3239 | 0.0101 |
c | 0.0977 | 0.3988 | −0.1151 | l | 0.0558 | 0.3209 | 0.1606 |
d | 0.2942 | 0.2188 | −0.1857 | m | 0.1147 | 0.2013 | 0.4587 |
e | 0.2904 | −0.241 | 0.1663 | n | 0.2750 | 0.0541 | 0.2644 |
f | 0.2965 | −0.2112 | 0.1551 | o | 0.0438 | 0.2231 | 0.5107 |
g | 0.2038 | −0.3918 | 0.1635 | p | 0.2979 | 0.0440 | −0.2598 |
h | 0.2700 | −0.1661 | 0.0902 | q | 0.2144 | 0.1487 | −0.4101 |
i | 0.3035 | 0.2052 | 0.0814 |
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Province | ||||||||||||
Guangdong | 0.427 | 0.497 | 0.466 | 0.532 | 0.582 | 0.662 | 0.819 | 0.850 | 0.872 | 0.871 | 1.000 | |
Jiangsu | 0.403 | 0.457 | 0.432 | 0.449 | 0.485 | 0.572 | 0.670 | 0.754 | 0.710 | 0.707 | 0.763 | |
Shandong | 0.323 | 0.363 | 0.348 | 0.426 | 0.429 | 0.455 | 0.5321 | 0.586 | 0.589 | 0.545 | 0.621 | |
… | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | |
Qinghai | 0.016 | 0.018 | 0.023 | 0.026 | 0.030 | 0.033 | 0.041 | 0.044 | 0.048 | 0.048 | 0.053 | |
Hainan | 0.006 | 0.011 | 0.008 | 0.010 | 0.014 | 0.018 | 0.032 | 0.038 | 0.039 | 0.054 | 0.049 | |
Ningxia | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.003 | 0.005 | 0.004 | 0.013 | 0.022 | 0.033 | 0.035 | 0.030 | 0.042 |
Variable Type | Variable Name | Code | Obs | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min | Max |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variable | Green total factor productivity | GTFP | 330 | 1.0179 | 0.0896 | 0.5536 | 1.4072 |
Independent variable | Digital economy | DEI | 330 | 0.2262 | 0.1776 | 0 | 1 |
Threshold variable | Environmental regulation | Envi | 330 | 1.0791 | 1.0257 | 0.0202 | 7.9264 |
Control variables | Population size (in ten thousands) | Urban | 330 | 882 | 1.158 | 364 | 2.821 |
Transport infrastructure | Infra | 330 | 1.3525 | 1.0389 | 0.0737 | 5.7447 | |
Economic development | Pgdp | 330 | 4.6657 | 0.2050 | 4.1099 | 5.2172 | |
Opening-up | Trad | 330 | 0.0194 | 0.0157 | 0.0001 | 0.0829 | |
Government support | GT | 330 | 0.2418 | 0.1032 | 0.0135 | 0.6284 |
Variables | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
---|---|---|---|---|
FE | RE | North | South | |
DEI | 0.067 ** | 0.031 * | 0.324 *** | 0.418 *** |
(2.111) | (1.901) | (5.681) | (4.215) | |
Dens | −0.001 *** | −0.001 *** | −0.001 *** | −0.001 *** |
(−5.321) | (−3.911) | (−5.553) | (−2.692) | |
Infra | 0.032 *** | 0.020 *** | 0.018 ** | 0.056 *** |
(4.672) | (5.221) | (2.226) | (4.427) | |
Pgdp | −0.028 * | −0.052 *** | −0.118 *** | −0.008 |
(−1.053) | (3.223) | (-2.788) | (−0.236) | |
Trad | −0.860 *** | −0.246 * | −1.442 *** | −0.243 |
(−4.644) | (−1.734) | (-6.575) | (−0.768) | |
GT | 0.130 ** | 0.067 * | 0.233 *** | 0.025 |
(2.433) | (1.753) | (2.749) | (0.339) | |
Constant | 0.945 *** | 0.715 *** | 1.258 *** | 0.831 *** |
(9.191) | (10.661) | (7.634) | (6.498) | |
Observations | 330 | 330 | 165 | 165 |
Number of id | 30 | 30 | 15 | 15 |
R-squared | 0.423 | 0.401 | 0.558 | 0.420 |
Dependent Variable | Threshold Variable | No. of Thresholds | F Value | p Value | BS Times | Threshold Value | Critical Value | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | II | III | 1% | 5% | 10% | ||||||
GTFP | Envi | Single | 2.14 | 0.0086 | 300 | 7.6688 | 12.8614 | 10.8064 | 9.3574 | ||
Double | 19.34 | 0.0033 | 300 | 7.6688 | 7.9464 | 15.8282 | 10.6819 | 8.5331 | |||
Triple | 10.48 | 0.1700 | 300 | 7.6688 | 7.9464 | 8.8827 | 24.6793 | 17.8675 | 13.2923 |
Threshold Variable | Threshold Interval | Coefficient | p Value |
---|---|---|---|
Envi | 0.0993 | 0.112 | |
0.2896 | 0.000 | ||
0.0535 | 0.271 |
Variable | (1) | (2) | (3) |
---|---|---|---|
GMM | First Stage | Second Stage | |
DEI | 0.084 *** | 0.041 ** | 0.045 ** |
(3.063) | (2.115) | (1.992) | |
Other Variables | control | control | control |
AR (2) | 0.510 | 0.222 | 0.998 |
Hansen | 0.151 | 0.125 | |
Wald Chi2 | 90.32 *** | ||
F | 64.668 *** | 14.51 *** | |
Kleibergen–Paap rk LM statistic | 38.365 *** | ||
Kleibergen–Paap rk Wald F statistic | 64.668 *** | ||
N | 330 | 330 | 330 |
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Zhang, W.; Zhang, S.; Bo, L.; Haque, M.; Liu, E. Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy? Sustainability 2023, 15, 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021564
Zhang W, Zhang S, Bo L, Haque M, Liu E. Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy? Sustainability. 2023; 15(2):1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021564
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Weiwei, Shengqiang Zhang, Lan Bo, Mahfuzul Haque, and Enru Liu. 2023. "Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy?" Sustainability 15, no. 2: 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021564
APA StyleZhang, W., Zhang, S., Bo, L., Haque, M., & Liu, E. (2023). Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy? Sustainability, 15(2), 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021564