Chengjiang Li

Jul 17, 2024 | mdpi.com | Qing Chen |Chengjiang Li

1. IntroductionEnvironmental regulation aims to address the energy and environmental challenges that jeopardize human well-being and sustainable development. In China, a key target of environmental regulation is the manufacturing sector, which accounts for more than half of the country’s total energy consumption and hence emissions (see Figure 1).

Oct 27, 2023 | mdpi.com | Guoteng Xu |Jingtong Shan |Chengjiang Li |Xia Chen

Analysis of Empirical Results Based on the regression models for each region, the Cross Section Weight (CSW) method is used to estimate the national and regional coefficients, and the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) method is used for the northern and eastern, central and southern, and western regional coefficients [,] (): At the national level, between 2003 and 2020, the strength of IPR protection was crucial for promoting high-quality knowledge spillovers from the digital economy to...

Sep 25, 2023 | mdpi.com | Guoteng Xu |Shuai Peng |Chengjiang Li |Xia Chen

2. Literature ReviewThis paper examines the fields of the green and digital economies, making it necessary to sort out the previous research from the perspective of the development status of both economies and their synergistic relationship. 2.1. Green EconomyCarson first proposed the concept of green development in his book Silent Spring (1963) to address the ecological issues caused by industrial pollution [].