Does China’s Regional Digital Economy Promote the Development of a Green Economy?

As countries worldwide are pursuing green development, assessing whether the digital economy as a new economic engine can help us achieve breakthroughs is of great research value. China, being largest resource consumer in world but with rapidly developing economy, offer special view on this question. Using China’s provincial panel data from 2010 to 2020, study comprehensively measures development four dimensions and empirically examines impact based super efficiency SBM-GML model. The results show that: first, has significant positive effect promoting economy; second, there regional differences both southern region better than that northern region; third, environmental regulation double-threshold relationship we assessed. findings highlight importance driving growth real value period.