Towards Urban Inclusive Low-carbon Development: The Impact and Mechanism of Regional Collaborative Development Policies
MA Dianyuan1,2, SUN Hui1,2, ZHAO Yan1,2, WANG Zhiwei1,2
1. Center for Innovation Management Research of Xinjiang, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China; 2. School of Economics and Management in Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Abstract Based on the balanced panel data of 272 cities from 2009 to 2021, and taking the relevant documents of11 urban agglomerations such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as the policy background of regional coordinateddevelopment, the paper uses a double machine learning model to infer the causal relationship between regionalcoordinated development policies and inclusive and low-carbon development of cities. The results show that theregional coordinated development policy can significantly promote the inclusive and low-carbon development ofcities, and this conclusion is still valid after the robustness test. The mechanism test indicates that the regionalcoordinated development policy achieves inclusive and low-carbon development by promoting the co-constructionof urban strategic emerging industries, environmental co-governance and green technology sharing. Heterogeneousanalysis reveals that cities with better high-speed rail construction and digital infrastructure and low-carbon pilotcities are more significantly affected by policies, but the driving effect on resource-based cities is not strong. Inview of this, we should pay attention to the importance of coordinated urban development, improve urbanco-construction, co-governance, and sharing mechanisms, strengthen the construction of high-speed rail and digitalinfrastructure, and summarize low-carbon development models to improve the level of inclusive and low-carbondevelopment of cities.
MA Dianyuan,SUN Hui,ZHAO Yan et al. Towards Urban Inclusive Low-carbon Development: The Impact and Mechanism of Regional Collaborative Development Policies. Economic Survey, 2024, 41(5): 015.
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