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Utilizing panel data from 264 prefecture-level cities in mainland China between 2009 and 2017, this study employs a multi-period difference-in-differences model and propensity score matching to assess the effects of county-to-district transformation...

Improving urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE) is an effective way to increase social, economic, and ecological benefits and achieve regional sustainable development goals. This study takes three batches of low-carbon pilot cities construction as...

Technical Measures to Trade have the characteristics of strong concealment and imperceptibility, which makes some WTO members frequently use “technical barriers” to restrict China’s product exports. Based on the multi-period differe...

Under the double pressures of economic growth and ecological environment protection, sea green transformation and the sustainable development of mariculture are critical. This paper constructs an evolutionary game model with the government as the mai...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral driver of digital transformation in the banking sector, fundamentally influencing operational efficiency, resource allocation, and profitability. This study investigates how AI adoption affects the...

China’s dual carbon goals necessitate green transformation across industries, with STAR Market enterprises serving as crucial drivers of technological innovation. Existing studies predominantly focus on traditional sectors, overlooking dynamic...

Pilot policies are key determinants of urban ecological resilience, while the corresponding results are inconsistent. Moreover, existing research on the synergistic effects of policies on ecological resilience remains insufficient. Thus, this study s...

The adjustment of administrative division is one of the powerful tools used to promote urbanization by the Chinese government in recent decades, and there is little literature to discuss whether the government-led expansion of urban space through cit...

The establishment of the Free Trade (Pilot) Zone (FTZ) is a new attempt by China to embark on modern sustainable urban planning and governmental territorial management at the development stage of a high-quality economy. As urban lands serve as the li...

Green and high-quality development is the focus of China’s urban development strategy in the new era. The city–county merger policy has been one of several powerful tools used by the Chinese government to promote urbanization in recent de...

Talent is an important strategic resource for regional economic development. Based on the background of “the talent war” that has broken out between various cities in recent years, this study empirically verified the influence of the tale...

In response to urban digital intelligence transformation (DIT) and the rising global emphasis on corporate carbon performance (CP), this study leverages the “National New-Generation AI Innovation Development Pilot Zones” (NAIPZs) as a qua...

This study investigates the function and contribution of the cultural industries’ agglomeration to green economic growth. Based on the quasi-natural experiment of the “provincial cultural industry park” selection policy, we use the...

Against the backdrop of frequent global trade conflicts and accelerated competition in the digital economy, we investigated how trade friction shocks affect firms’ total factor productivity (TFP), with a focus on the role of digital transformat...

Innovative provinces are essential to innovative countries and robust support for constructing national and regional innovation systems. Based on the panel data of 28 provinces from 2016 to 2019, this paper builds a regional innovation ecosystem perf...

China’s National Key Ecological Function Zones (NKEFZs) currently represent the largest and most extensive ecological conservation policy in China, with one of the core objectives of this policy being to improve eco-environmental quality (EEQ)....

The close association between policy deployment in ecotourism demonstration areas and low-carbon tourism makes it imperative to explore whether such policies can effectively curb carbon emissions in the tourism sector. This study utilizes an evolutio...

The low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy represents a pioneering approach to fostering sustainable development. It offers a scientific framework to reconcile the relationship between economic growth, resource utilization, and environmental protection....

This study approaches the “Zero-Waste City (ZWC)” initiative as a quasi-natural experiment. Utilizing panel data from 273 prefecture-level cities in China from 2013 to 2023, it employs a multi-period difference-in-differences model to sys...

The improvement of urban land green use efficiency is significant in promoting sustainable development. As an important place-based policy in China, the pilot free-trade zone establishment has exerted a profound impact on urban economy and society. M...

In recent years, smart city construction has brought significant social and economic impacts to emerging economies, especially in narrowing the urban–rural gap. However, there is relatively little empirical research on this aspect. We take Chin...

To advance breakthroughs in core technologies and foster the growth of technology-based enterprises, China has introduced the Sci-Tech Finance Pilot Policy with the aim of promoting sci-tech enterprise development through optimized financial resource...

As inevitable outcomes of the digital economy’s low-carbon development, green data centers play a crucial role in environmental impact and underlying mechanisms. This study focuses on green data center establishment as a representative practice...

Against the backdrop of frequent internal and external shocks, as a core driver of the consumption segment in the digital economy, the impact mechanism and actual effectiveness of information consumption on urban economic resilience urgently require...

The natural forest logging ban policy has substantially influenced rural residents’ production activities, daily lives, and income levels. Drawing on panel data from 30 provinces in China, this study examines both the overall effect of the poli...

The River Chief System (RCS), an innovative policy for sustainable water governance in China, has diffused through parallel and hierarchical modes, exerting heterogeneous impacts on corporate green innovation—a key driver of sustainable develop...

To evaluate the effectiveness of green finance, this study treats China’s green finance reform and innovation pilot zones as a quasi-natural experiment to assess their impact on urban energy efficiency. This research utilizes a panel dataset of...

Transportation infrastructure is essential to regional innovation systems, and the high-speed railway (HSR) is reshaping China’s regional innovation pattern. Previous research lacks an analysis of the impact of opening an HSR on urban tradition...

Achieving the “double carbon” goal and optimizing the energy structure necessitates strategic deployments such as low-carbon cities (LCCs) and new energy demonstration cities (NEDCs). Prior research has primarily examined the effectivenes...

This study provided county-level empirical evidence on how rural land institutional reform affected the urban–rural income gap, and offered policy implications for advancing rural revitalization and common prosperity. Utilizing panel data for 1...

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...

Integrated urban–rural development is an inevitable requirement of regional development. Developing green industries based on rural ecological resources are important approaches to promoting urban–rural integration. The National Key Ecolo...

National Key Ecological Functional Areas (NKEFAs) play an important role in forestry restoration, water source conservation, soil and water conservation, windbreak and sand fixation, and biodiversity maintenance. They are the strategic core of ecosys...

As a high-quality and sustainable growth model, green development has different economic, ecological, and social dimensions and is strategically important for the realization of modern city construction and the sustainable development of human societ...

As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns increasingly shape corporate behavior, understanding their financial implications remains critical. This study investigates the impact of ESG performance on shareholder value, focusing on the me...

The low-carbon pilot city policy is an important initiative to explore the path of a win-win situation for both the economy and the environment. Since 2010, China has established 87 low-carbon pilot cities. This policy implementation aims to encourag...

Given the global imperative for energy transition, vertical mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become a strategic lever for renewable energy enterprises to enhance supply chain resilience. This study examines the performance of Chinese A-share...

Green innovation precisely reflects China’s new development concept and is the general trend for urban development in the future. In addition, e-commerce might become an important breakthrough platform to promote urban green innovation. In orde...

Based on the quasi-natural experiment of “the pilot policy of combining science and technology with finance” (Sci-Tech Finance pilot policy) carried out in China in recent years, this paper constructs a multi-stage difference-in-differenc...

Fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) pollution poses a major threat to human physical and mental health. Smart cities (SCs) provide innovative paths for PM_2.5 pollution prevention and control through Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring, intelligent transp...

Figuring out how government innovation incentive policies affect the GVC (global value chain) position at a micro level is essential for choosing anaccurate policy to encourage self-dependent innovation. We examined whether and how China’s pref...

Urban green transformation is an important part of global low-carbon development. Coercive government policies are critical to achieving success, but, as of now, there is no unified concept of “green competitiveness”. To address climate c...

In the pursuit of high-quality economic development, addressing the challenge of high pollution and carbon emissions has become a critical issue. The rapid advancement of digital technology offers novel opportunities and tools to effectively mitigate...

In this paper, we study the portfolio selection problem considering transaction costs under multiple periods. For non-professional investors, it is a critical factor to choose an appropriate model among multiple portfolio selection models in investme...

Due to water scarcity in the Yellow River basin, the existing operations for the Longyangxia and Liujiashan cascade reservoirs are insufficient to meet the demands of multiple objectives. This study establishes a coupled coordination model considerin...

Digital–intelligent integration (DII) has emerged as a pivotal driver for high-quality urban development, offering a pathway to overcome pressing resource and environmental constraints. By harnessing data as a core production factor and integra...

Faced with the dual pressure from global climate change and increasing air pollution, China has gradually clarified the adoption of market-based tools to improve the ecological environment. Based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2006 to 2020, th...

Using panel data from 275 prefecture-level cities in China spanning from 2003 to 2019, this paper employs the multiperiod difference-in-differences method to empirically analyze the policy effect of land negotiation policy on local governments’...

This study uses four dimensions, namely social resilience, economic resilience, infrastructure resilience, and ecological resilience, to construct an index system for urban resilience. The subject data came from the panel data of 282 prefecture-level...

This study aims to improve the level of water ecological civilization (WEC) in the urbanization process based on the data of prefecture-level cities in Jiangxi, China, from 2011 to 2020. This paper applies spatial analysis methods such as the natural...