Carbon emission reduction effects of digital infrastructure construction development: the broadband China strategy as a quasi-natural experiment

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: April 22, 2025

Research on carbon emission reduction in China has focused market policies, technological innovation, and industrial institutional adjustment, but few studies have been concerned with the effects of rapid development China’s digital economy reduction. vigorous infrastructure led to establishment Broadband strategy as a quasi-natural experiment. A difference-in-differences model data from 2006 2023 about 283 prefecture-level cities was applied investigate construction The conclusions are follows. First, these had significant emissions intensity. This conclusion proven after series robustness tests such parallel trends, exclusion central cities, replacement explanatory variables. Second, mediating effect test showed that green technology innovation investment structure upgrading important mechanisms for construction’s effects. Third, obvious heterogeneity stronger eastern region than western ones. Moreover, expansion urban scale, improvement economic level, environmental regulation These relevance Digital Economy “Dual Carbon” Policies.

Language: Английский

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Unleashing the Role of Broadband Technologies on Entrepreneurial Activities: Evidence from BRICS Countries

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 29, 2025

Language: Английский

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Impact of China’s rural collective construction land marketization reform on unlocking entrepreneurial potential

Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 157, P. 107629 - 107629

Published: June 2, 2025

Language: Английский

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Public Data Openness and Corporate Total Factor Productivity

Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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