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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1559586
The Impact of Digital Trade on Inclusive Green Growth-Evidence from China's Experience
Provisionally accepted- Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
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As an emerging trade model, digital trade has had a profound impact on sustainable development and has become an important driving force for promoting inclusive green growth. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2014-2021, this study introduces two research methods, EWM-TOPSIS and panel regression model, and utilizes the analysis of transmission mechanism and heterogeneity to deeply explore the impact of digital trade on inclusive green growth and its intrinsic mechanism under the perspective of spatial correlation. The results show that: (1) Digital trade effectively promotes inclusive green growth, and this conclusion is verified to be robust by excluding extreme values, and adding control variables. (2) Mechanism testing shows that digital trade can promote green and inclusive growth by optimizing the industrial structure. (3) Heterogeneity tests show that the enabling effect of digital trade is more pronounced in the eastern, central and western regions of China and at the 25%, 50% and 75% quintiles of inclusive green growth. Therefore, it is of great significance to use digital trade in the future to coordinate the development of inclusive green growth in various provinces and regions by optimizing the industrial structure, and to enhance the overall level of inclusive green growth and sustainable economic development.
Keywords: EWM-TOPSIS, Inclusive green growth, Digital trade, Two-way fixed effects, Spatial spillover effects
Received: 13 Jan 2025; Accepted: 16 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chu, Du and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yuetao Yang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
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