Agricultural industrial parks have been promoted as a key instrument for agricultural modernization, yet causal evidence of their impact on raising rural residents’ income remains limited. This study evaluates the income effects of National Mod...
Being at the forefront of China’s regional innovation and development, enterprises in the National Innovation Demonstration Zones must take the lead in completing high-quality transformation and upgrading. In this study, we use data from 1770 m...
To discover how the lacquerware industry realizes its core competency, it is important to explore its upgrading strategies in the global value chains. The purpose of this study is to discuss the upgrading strategies applied during the lacquerware ind...
Environmental performance is a key issue that relates to the sustainable development of the economy and the environment. Innovation-driven approaches are fundamental in improving environmental performance; however, innovation activities come with unc...
Development zones are crucial spatial carriers driving economic growth and industrial upgrading, playing a key role in China’s development. After years of expansion, these zones face significant challenges in industrial land development and per...
The “County-to-City Upgrading” policy represents a typical tool for central and local governments to promote the urbanization process through administrative empowerment. Do local governments’ policies promote innovation-driven high-...
This study investigates the spatiotemporal distribution of carbon emissions and the decoupling relationship between emissions and innovation-driven urban development in six coastal provinces and municipalities in China from 2008 to 2022. The main que...
Enhancing urban innovation resilience is crucial for adapting to change and pursuing innovation-driven, high-quality development. The global trend of digital transformation has profound implications for urban innovation; however, the specific effects...
Under the strategic background of Made-in-China to Mind-in-China, how the capital market expectation affects enterprise innovation input has reached no coincident conclusion. This paper uses Chinese A-share manufacturing listed companies from 2010 to...
This study investigates the impact of integration into the international economic cycle (IEC) on green innovation in China’s manufacturing sector, a key factor in the country’s green strategic transformation. Using multi-regional input&nd...
Against the backdrop of China’s “carbon peaking” and “carbon neutrality” goals, as well as the advancement of new industrialization, the oil and gas industry is undergoing a critical transformation from resource-dependen...
The global consensus on sustainable development hinges on the coordinated advancement of economic, social, and environmental dimensions, with high-quality development serving as China’s pivotal pathway for practical implementation. As the prima...
The digital economy, as a major economic form after the agricultural and industrial economies, has become a new driving force in the development of the national economy, and it may provide opportunities for rural economic development through new busi...
The accelerating growth of the digital economy is fundamentally transforming international trade patterns and increasingly contributing to sustainable economic progress. Despite this, there is still limited research on how it influences the competiti...
In the grand context of the global convergence of the “dual-carbon” strategy and the digital economy, the underlying mechanisms by which corporate fintech impacts ESG performance remain a “black box” waiting to be explored. To...
The growing concentration of innovation-driven economic activity in core metropolitan areas threatens the sustainable development of peripheral regions. Conventional aid programs are giving way to place-based strategies that harness endogenous region...
As the digital economy increasingly integrates with the real economy, the goal of high-quality economic development in China has become increasingly clear. Promoting high-quality regional economic development through the integration of the digital an...
Upgrading the industrial structure is an essential step for economic growth and the transformation of old and new development drivers. Counties situated at the rural–urban interface hold a comparative advantage in industrial upgrading compared...
Digital transformation has emerged as a pivotal catalyst for corporate green innovation, specifically in the context of the green development of the manufacturing industry. Nevertheless, it is evident that there are significant disparities in the var...
Under the framework of the “dual carbon” goals, promoting the coordinated development of carbon emission efficiency, carbon sink capacity, and high-quality growth has become a critical issue for regional sustainability. Using panel data f...
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The question of how to proactively respond to population aging has become a major global issue. As a country with the largest elderly population in the world, China suffers a stronger shock from population aging, which makes it more urgent to transfo...
This paper employs the instrumental variable method and the intermediary model to explore the influence of monocentric and polycentric spatial structures of innovation agglomeration on energy efficiency. This paper uses data from 2010 to 2021 in Chin...
In recent years, the investment of private equity funds in China has increased and has become an important tool to promote industrial structure upgrades. Therefore, it is of theoretical and practical significance to study how and why industrial upgra...
Industrial optimization is needed as China’s economy moves toward high-quality growth. The construction of new infrastructure, driven by new development concepts and patterns, facilitates industrial optimization. This study aims to explore the...
The COVID-19 pandemic, extreme temperatures and the Russia–Ukraine conflict have exposed deficiencies in global agricultural production capacity and governance systems, which left low-income countries and regions to face more severe food insecu...
Economic transformation is an effective strategy for resource-based regions to avoid the “resource curse”. In China’s high-quality development stage, using new-generation IT to guide economic structure adjustment, industrial upgradi...
The importance of data in current societal activities cannot be overstated, yet we know little about data governance and application. Using the Chinese Government Data Empowerment Initiative, this paper examines the process of data-driven business in...
Climate change is a challenge facing all countries around the world. In response to the global climate change, China has pledged a two-stage carbon reduction goal of “dual carbon” to realize sustainable development. Industrial structure u...
The Yangtze River Economic Belt, a key growth driver in China, faces energy-carbon challenges. Analyzing the impact of industrial restructuring on energy transition and emission reduction is crucial for its low-carbon transformation. This study first...
The smart city pilot plan plays a pivotal role in the modernization of urban development within Digital China. To accelerate economic growth and establish a nation driven by innovation, it is crucial to examine the impact of smart city pilot programs...
Understanding the pathways through which digital innovation contributes to carbon emission reduction is crucial for designing effective climate policies. Existing studies generally find a negative association between digitalization and carbon emissio...
Industrial process heat production is critical to achieving sustainability in our society. Avoiding fossil fuels and reducing electricity consumption for heat production are critical aspects of creating sustainable industries. Exploiting waste heat s...
As China advances its rural revitalization and agricultural modernization, agricultural new-quality productivity (ANQP)—driven by technological innovation and efficient factor allocation—has become essential for achieving sustainable agri...
As a new economic form driven and empowered by digital technology, the development of the digital economy has become a crucial pathway for boosting the advancement of new quality productive forces. This study employs the entropy method to measure the...
Digital platforms are transforming almost every industry today. To gain insight into the innovation mechanism of the industrial Internet platform-based ecosystem, combining its nature of sustainability, this paper investigates strategic factors, such...
The global aquaculture sector faces mounting pressure to transition towards sustainable production, with innovation being a critical lever for change, especially among smallholder farmers who dominate the industry. This study examines the drivers of...
Reducing energy intensity is a critical measure for promoting sustainable industrial development and achieving high-quality economic growth. Based on enterprise survey data provided by the World Bank from 2011 to 2013, this paper empirically examines...
To combat global warming, China proposed the “dual carbon” policy in 2020. In this context, it becomes crucial to improve carbon emissions efficiency. Currently, some scholars have utilized data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study carbon...
With the promotion of the dual carbon policy and the process of transforming and upgrading manufacturing, vigorously developing high-tech manufacturing with high-technology content and significant added value has become a powerful driving force to im...
Innovation driven green development has become the key to realizing the transformation and upgrading of pollution-intensive industries and the improvement of economic quality and efficiency in the new era. Based on the identification of pollution-int...
Driven by innovations in digital technologies, the digital economy is reshaping societal production and consumption patterns, exerting systematic effects on the energy system through the digital transformation of both the supply and demand sides of e...
Currently, human society is in the era of the digital economy, driven by a new wave of digital technology revolution. Against this backdrop, China actively draws on global development concepts, accelerating the advancement of new infrastructure const...
Achieving sustainable development goals remains a core issue in global development. In response, China has proposed the development of new quality productive forces (NQPFs) through innovative thinking, emphasizing that fostering NQPFs is both an intr...
Against the backdrop of global challenges to food security and China’s push to modernize its agriculture, it is critical to understand how government strategies affect innovation efficiency. This study examines how three modes of intergovernmen...
Amid China’s economic transition toward high-quality development, the policy of additional deductions for R&D expenses, a key fiscal and taxation tool for incentivizing corporate innovation, has attracted considerable attention for its actu...
The solar gasification of biomass represents a promising avenue in which both renewable solar and biomass energy can be utilized in a single process to produce synthesis gas. The type of oxidant plays a key role in solar-driven biomass gasification p...
Rapid industrialization and urbanization have driven China’s economic growth but also worsened air pollution, posing serious challenges to sustainable development and public health. Balancing economic growth and environmental protection has bec...
Under the impetus of the global urbanization, the synergistic relationship between smart city policies and green innovation capabilities has emerged as a critical agenda for achieving sustainable development goals. While existing studies have explore...
In an era of intensifying global technological competition and systemic disruptions, the resilience of metropolitan innovation networks has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable regional development. Based on joint invention patents, this study emp...
Technological developments are compelling organizations to upgrade their HR practices by adopting AI-driven applications. Yet, HR professionals are hesitant to adopt AI-driven technology in the recruitment process. Addressing this topic, the current...
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