Zhang Ruifeng
"In the 14th Five-Year Plan, it is proposed to "accelerate digital development and build a digital China" and "promote comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development". At present, China is in the critical transition period of moving towards a new stage of high-quality development, and the pursuit of green development has become the main goal of economic development planning by the state and governments at all levels. The emergence of big data has brought new vitality to economic development, profoundly affecting various fields of economy and society such as production, circulation and distribution, and has become an important grip to promote green development. From the perspective of the construction of big data comprehensive pilot zone, we explore the theoretical mechanism and the role of big data and green development in order to provide a reference for big data-enabled green development.The text uses Differences-in-Differences to study the impact of national-level big data comprehensive pilot zone pilot policies on the level of urban green development using 269 prefecture-level and above cities across China as research samples from 2011-2019. The study finds that the digital economy has a catalytic effect on urban green development. Meanwhile, the combination of big data and real economy should be promoted, the training of big data talents should be focused, the open sharing of data should be promoted, the regulatory and rule of law system should be improved, and the attention to the development of digital economy should be enhanced to empower green development.
Digital Economy;National-level Big Data Comprehensive Test Area;Green Development;Differences-in-Differences