The Impact of Digital Economy on High-quality Economic Development in China:Based on the Moderating Role of Green Technology Innovation
Digital economy is gradually becoming the core driving impetus of high-quality economic de-velopment.Developing the digital economy vigorously is conducive to promoting the construction of the new development paradigm and accelerating the building of a modernized economic system.Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2021,we systematically assessed and measured the level of digital economy and high-quality economic development of each region,and conducted empirical analysis by using the two-way fixed effect model in order to explore the impact of digital economy on high-quality economic development and its role mechanism.The results of the study conclude that the digital economy significantly promote high-quality economic development,especially green technological innovation plays a positive moderating role in this process,as well as the existence of regional heteroge-neity in this effect.Therefore,while promoting the development of digital economy,we should pay at-tention to the green technology innovation enhancement in order to achieve high-quality economic devel-opment.
Digital EconomyHigh-Quality Economic DevelopmentGreen Technology InnovationModerating EffectHeterogeneity