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<p>With its distinct advantages of informatization, personalization, and intelligence, digital technology (DT) is becoming integral to industrial green transition (IGT). This paper aims to investigate the complex impact of DT on IGT. To this end, utilizing data across 283 Chinese cities from 2013 to 2022, we employ a two-way fixed-effects model, a mediation model, and a threshold effect model. The results show that (1) DT significantly and positively enhances IGT, as shown by robustness and endogeneity tests; (2) government environmental penalties (GEP) and industrial structure rationalization (ISR) serve as mediation pathways through which DT influences IGT; (3) IGT performance in eastern and central regions, nonresource-based cities, major population-scale cities, and inland cities benefits more from DT than that in other cities; (4) an increase in the DT of neighboring cities not only enhances the IGT of the city itself but also generates spatial spillover effects on neighboring cities; and (5) under a moderate level of government attention (LGA), the positive threshold effect of DT on IGT is most notable. On the basis of these results, this paper proposes targeted policy recommendations, including DT-driven initiatives, enhanced environmental monitoring, industrial structure optimization, regional differentiated development, and an appropriate LGA.</p>

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The impact of digital technology on industrial green transition—an empirical study of Chinese cities

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    2026年6月27日

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  • Changxue Wang,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Canjuan Gong,
  • Chenglong Xu

摘要

With its distinct advantages of informatization, personalization, and intelligence, digital technology (DT) is becoming integral to industrial green transition (IGT). This paper aims to investigate the complex impact of DT on IGT. To this end, utilizing data across 283 Chinese cities from 2013 to 2022, we employ a two-way fixed-effects model, a mediation model, and a threshold effect model. The results show that (1) DT significantly and positively enhances IGT, as shown by robustness and endogeneity tests; (2) government environmental penalties (GEP) and industrial structure rationalization (ISR) serve as mediation pathways through which DT influences IGT; (3) IGT performance in eastern and central regions, nonresource-based cities, major population-scale cities, and inland cities benefits more from DT than that in other cities; (4) an increase in the DT of neighboring cities not only enhances the IGT of the city itself but also generates spatial spillover effects on neighboring cities; and (5) under a moderate level of government attention (LGA), the positive threshold effect of DT on IGT is most notable. On the basis of these results, this paper proposes targeted policy recommendations, including DT-driven initiatives, enhanced environmental monitoring, industrial structure optimization, regional differentiated development, and an appropriate LGA.