The spatial impact of digital economy on energy intensity in China in the context of double carbon to achieve the sustainable development goals.

发布时间：2022年12月

作者：Guo Qingran^a;Wu Zhuo^b;Jahanger Atif^c;Ding Cuicui^d;Guo Bocheng^e;Awan Ashar^f

单位：a School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China

b School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China

c School of Economics, Hainan University, Haikou City, 570228, Hainan, China;

Institute of Open Economy, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China

d School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China;

School of Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China

e School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China

f Graduate School, NisanTasi University, Istanbul, Turkey;

University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan

期刊：Environmental science and pollution research international.

Volume 30 , Issue 13,December 2022, 35528-35544

摘要：Using the provincial panel data of China during 2012-2019, the present study employed spatial Durbin error model to explore the spatial effect of the digital economy on energy intensity. The results show that both digital economy and energy intensity have spatial autocorrelation, showing the distribution characteristics of spatial aggregation. The digital economy has a significant negative influence on energy intensity. The result shows a significant spatial spillover effect of digital economy on energy intensity, and the development of the digital economy in neighboring regions reduces energy intensity in the central region. Additionally, industrial structure, urbanization, energy price, and foreign direct investment have a heterogenous impact on energy intensity. Thus, it is crucial to give importance to the development of the energy intensity, plan the spatial layout of the digital industry as a whole, drive the coordinated growth of the regional digital economy, quicken the upgrading of industrial structure, promote urbanization, perfect the energy price formation mechanism, raise the entry threshold for foreign direct investment, to effectively reduce the energy intensity, and facilitate the smooth realization of the "double carbon" goal.

关键词：Digital economy;Energy intensity;Spatial Durbin error model;Spatial effect

DOI：10.1007/S11356-022-24814-8

链接：https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24814-8