The Impact of Digital Finance on High-Quality Development of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle

This paper developed a comprehensive evaluation system that was able to quantify the levels of high-quality development across the cities within the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle,and investigate the impact that digital finance had on the cities’high-quality development and the underlying mechanisms through which it achieved this.This comprehensive evaluation system was constructed using statistical data from these cities for the period 2014 to 2020 while also taking China’s high-quality development philosophy into account.The key findings revealed that:(a)Digital finance was able to significantly promote high-quality development in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle;(b)Digital finance had a significant positive effect in promoting innovative,coordinated,green,open,and shared development;(c)Digital finance was able to stimulate the high-quality development in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle by boosting entrepreneurial dynamism;(d)Digital finance had a significant impact on the high-quality development of the axis areas,while its impact was less discernible in non-axis areas.The insights from this research offer a deeper understanding of the factors that drive high-quality development,the role digital finance plays,and the mechanisms through which digital finance is able to propel high-quality development at the city cluster scale.

The Logic of Digital Finance in the Age of Digital Economy

This paper explores the development logic,trends,and challenges of digital finance in the era of the digital economy.As a crucial component of the digital economy,digital finance has completely transformed the traditional financial services model through factors such as technological innovation,data intelligence,and personalized user experiences,paving the way for new business models and market opportunities.However,the rapid development of digital finance also faces challenges such as competition,security,and regulation.This paper emphasizes the importance of finding a balance between innovation and security in the development of digital finance and discusses the potential of digital finance in promoting financial inclusion and sustainable development.Through comprehensive analysis,this paper aims to provide valuable insights for academic researchers and industry practitioners,promoting the healthy development of digital finance.

A Mechanism for Digital Finance to Drive Green and Low-Carbon Development

Given the global focus on green and low-carbon development and the increasing prominence of digital finance,it is particularly important to explore how to leverage digital finance to achieve these environmental goals.This study,through mechanism analysis,deeply examines how China’s digital finance promotes green and low-carbon development and elucidates the positive interaction between digital finance and the green industry.The study found that digital finance,through more flexible and efficient financial functions,alters the cost structure of carbon emissions,and reduces the risks and costs of green investments,thereby creating a cooperative green mechanism benefiting all parties,and guiding social groups toward a green and low-carbon transformation.Additionally,the rapid development of digital finance has strengthened the implementation of environmental protection policies,effectively promoted the expansion of the environmental protection industry,and established the green ethos as a mainstream concept in financial development.This study aims to provide reference perspectives and suggestions,assist policymakers in promoting the green and lowcarbon development of digital finance,and offer insights into the integrated development of digital finance and the green environmental protection industry.

Current Situation of Digital Inclusive Finance in China

Inclusive finance is not only an innovation in financial service concepts but also an institutional arrangement to address the imbalance in social and economic development.Therefore,it is particularly necessary to study the current development status,development level,and challenges of inclusive finance and to conduct research on these issues.Overall,inclusive finance has demonstrated a positive momentum of development,but improvements are still needed in terms of market players,products and services,and the external ecosystem.China’s inclusive finance is still in its infancy,making it essential to accelerate its development and promote inclusive finance in the country.

An Analysis of Digital Finance in Promoting the Development of New Quality Productivity

As a product of the deep integration of financial technology and the digital economy,digital finance plays a significant role in promoting the development of new quality productivity.This paper first elaborates on the connotations of new quality productivity and digital finance and analyzes the mechanisms by which digital finance promotes the development of new quality productivity from both theoretical and practical perspectives.The aim is to explore the value digital finance brings to the development of new quality productivity,along with the challenges it faces,in order to propose corresponding policy recommendations.

Research on the Impact of Digital Finance on Energy Efficiency in China

Digital finance and green technology innovation(GTI)serve as powerful engines for promoting energy efficiency(EE)and economic development.This paper explores the mechanism by which digital finance impacts EE based on panel data from 30 provinces in China spanning from 2011 to 2019.The results demonstrate that digital finance can significantly enhance EE,with a particularly pronounced effect in the eastern region.Through mechanistic analysis,it is evident that GTI serves as the transmission pathway through which digital finance influences EE,accounting for 45.3%of the effect.The policy implication of this study suggests that China should expedite the digitization of financial markets to further harness the development of digital finance,particularly in pursuit of its technological innovation and green,lowcarbon environmental protection effects.

Exploring the Evolutionary Path of Digital Financial Inclusion in Guangdong Province,China

This study explores the development trajectory of digital financial inclusion in 21 cities in Guangdong Province through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA).The findings emphasize that the success of digital financial inclusion goes beyond individual dimensions,forming a systematic initiative marked by multifaceted interaction among different disciplines.In the trajectory of high-level digital inclusive finance development,the study identifies economic prosperity and technological innovation as crucial elements,highlighting their centrality,and elucidates the synergistic collaboration between market mechanisms and government guidance.Furthermore,the study emphasizes the government’s pivotal role in supporting market mechanisms and guiding policies,highlighting the need to achieve a nuanced equilibrium in the digital financial inclusion strategy.In contrast,non-high-level development paths of digital inclusive finance show a spectrum of diversities,emphasizing the critical roles played by economic fundamentals,government regulation,market mechanisms,and other contextual factors in different trajectories.Regarding policy implications,the study emphasizes the comprehensive and systemic nature inherent in the development of digital inclusive finance.It proposes four policy recommendations,including integrating development strategies,emphasizing scientific and technological innovation and economic development,achieving a delicate balance between market mechanisms and government guidance,and providing precise policy support.These insights provide valuable lessons for shaping digital inclusive financial policies in Guangdong Province and beyond,offering profound insights for strategically constructing robust digital financial ecosystems.

High-quality Development Path of Henan Agriculture and Rural Areas Empowered by Digital Inclusive Finance

By studying high-quality development process of Henan agriculture and rural areas empowered by digital inclusive finance,it is found that the construction of digital financial infrastructure in Henan Province is relatively complete,and the level of deposit and loan of rural enterprises and farmers is constantly improving,and the market and government are constantly upgrading the financial risk insurance compensation mechanism.At the same time,there are also problems such as insufficient demand and supply of digital finance,single digital financial products,and weak market supervision.Based on this,some implementation paths are proposed,such as continuing to strengthen the construction of rural financial infrastructure in Henan Province,improving farmers’financial literacy,and enriching digital financial products and services.The government should continue to improve the construction of market system,and broaden the market supervision and management,to actively promote the digitalization of agricultural finance to enable the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas in Henan Province.

The Digital Inclusive Finance and Enterprise Innovation:Evidence From A-Share Market

In China,the integration of digital technology and finance has gradually formed a digital supply mode of inclusive finance,which alleviates the financing limitations of small and medium-sized businesses to a certain extent and is significant for enterprise innovation activities that need financial support.Under the National Innovation-driven Development Strategy,it is particularly meaningful to evaluate whether digital inclusive finance can foster company innovation.This article empirically evaluates the impact of digital inclusive finance on firm innovation and development using data from all listed companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2018 together with the city level digital inclusive finance index.The result shows how digital inclusive financing may support businesses’innovative processes,and its role in promoting innovation differs among enterprises of different scales,but such heterogeneity effect can be absorbed by industry effect and time effect.The result of this paper sheds lights on the role of digital inclusive finance in improving enterprise performance by solving the financing dilemma of them,and according to the empirical results,this paper suggests that the support for digital inclusive finance should be further improved in order to promote the good and healthy development of the real economy,which refers to the part of a country’s economy that produces goods and services,rather than the part that consists of financial services such as banks and stock markets.

Digital finance and renewable energy consumption:evidence from China

While digital finance and renewable energy consumption(REC)are two timely issues,it remains unclear whether the former affects the latter,especially in developing economies.This paper examines the impact of digital finance on China’s REC between 2011 and 2018 and explores the underlying mechanisms.Results show that digital finance,along with its coverage breadth and usage depth,significantly improved REC in China and that digital finance in the area of credit has had the most significant impact.Additionally,the results show that loan scale and income level are the main mediation variables,through which digital finance affects REC.The findings also suggest that economic growth and technological progress have increased REC in China,while carbon dioxide emissions have had no meaningful effect on this consumption.The results further indicate that policymakers must pay close attention to the role of digital finance when formulating policies on REC.To promote REC and environmental sustainability,developing economies like China should strengthen the breadth and depth of digital finance development,focus on the influence channels of digital finance,and promote economic growth and technological progress.

Research on the Impact of Chinese Digital Inclusive Finance on Industrial Structure Upgrade—Based on Spatial Dubin Model

Based on the panel data of 30 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China from 2011 to 2018, this paper uses the digital inclusive financial index and industrial structure upgrading coefficient of the Internet Research Center of Peking University as the core explanatory and explained variables to construct a spatial panel. Bin model performs regression analysis on the effect of digital inclusive finance in the upgrading of industrial structure. The results prove that the development of digital inclusive finance in this province and city has significantly promoted the upgrading of the regional industrial structure, and it has a positive overall effect on the upgrading of industrial structure.

Research on the Spatial Influence of Digital Inclusive Finance on the High-quality Development of Private Economy

This paper selects China's provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020,uses the entropy method to calculate the high-quality development index of the private economy,and studies the spatial impact of digital inclusive finance on the high-quality development of the private economy based on the SDM model.The results show that:digital inclusive finance development has a positive effect on the high-quality development of the private economy in various provinces and cities,while it has a negative inhibitory effect on the high-quality development of the private economy in neighboring provinces and cities.In terms of spatial heterogeneity,digital inclusive finance in North China,East China,and Central and South China has a significant role in promoting the high-quality development of the private economy.The effect of North China,East China,and Central South is decreasing in order,while digital inclusive finance in Northwest China has a significant effect on the private economy.High-quality development has a negative effect.This paper provides empirical evidence and policy directions for the high-quality development of private enterprises in the context of the digital economy in the new era.

Study on Accelerating the Construction of Digital Inclusive Financial Service System in Rural Area

With the improvement of the overall economy of rural areas and the acceleration of the well-off society and poverty alleviation process,digital inclusive finance advances the development of rural area considerably.However,it still suffers from some problems such as lack of high-tech talents,low popularity,and shortage of effective supply and demand.This study explores relevant data and the corresponding solutions.This study also aims at accelerating the construction and improvement of digital inclusive financial service system in rural area and promoting the construction of well-off society and poverty alleviation process.

Spatial impact of digital finance on carbon productivity

Low carbon productivity has been identified as a key direction for China’s future development.As an important driving force for economic growth,the question of whether digital finance that is reliant on digital technology can support the development of a low-carbon urban economy remains unresolved.Based on the carbon productivity measured by panel data from 201 cities for the period 2011-2020,this study applies the spatial Dubin model and threshold regression model to explore the impact of digital finance on carbon productivity,yielding the following key conclusions.First,the spatial distribution heterogeneity of carbon productivity in China’s eastern region is higher than that in the western region,and both productivity and digital finance are characterized by high(low)-high(low)dotted spatial agglomeration.Second,digital finance can significantly improve carbon productivity via two transmission channels:the human capital and marketization effects.At the same time,digital finance exerts a spatial spillover effect on carbon productivity,and rising local digital finance levels will increase carbon productivity in neighboring areas.Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the spillover effect of digital finance in urban agglomerations and eastern regions is more significant.Third,fixed-asset investment has a positive nonlinear moderating effect on digital finance,thus improving carbon productivity.When the per capita investment in fixed assets does not exceed 682.73 yuan,digital finance exerts only a limit pulling effect on carbon productivity;when it is higher than this value,the pulling effect is intensified.

Mode and Logic of Token Transaction Supervision

This paper mainly studies the attitude and supervision mode of various countries towards digital tokens.The strength and methods of supervision in various countries are different.There are cross-border transaction tokens and other chaotic situations.It is difficult to supervise and protect the interests of investors,which is not conducive to the healthy development of financial economy in various countries.In addition,with the development of globalization,digital tokens are going to the world and need to circulate among countries.Therefore,a recognized regulatory principle is needed to ensure the healthy development of digital finance worldwide.With the goal of single independent law,with the help of“regulatory sandbox”and“white list”,we explore regulatory principles.

Rural Revitalization Enabled by Digital Transformation of Small and Medium-Sized Rural Banks and Double Chain Linkage Model Innovation

How small and medium-sized(SMS)rural banks,as the main banks offering rural financial services,serve all-round rural revitalization is a vital realistic and policy issue for the time being.Now,SMS rural banks are confronted with many shortcomings in serving rural revitalization due to dull financial service supply chain circulation and lack of coordination with the rural industry supply chain.The research based on survey data and typical cases shows that the key to solving these problems is to realize a double chain linkage of the financial service supply chain and the rural industry supply chain:The financial service supply chain and the rural industry supply chain should make use of their common infrastructure,share the digital technology capacity and data handling capacity and promote the linkage of customers,channels and scenarios in all links of the two supply chains in a bid to realize mutual promotion and improve the quality and efficiency of the two chains and hence fuel the all-round rural revitalization through industrial revitalization.Double chain linkage can be achieved through five major effective means:in terms of data,collaborating with digital rural governance and strengthening data collection and utilization;in terms of industry,collaborating with core entity enterprises and strengthening the supply chain financial service capacity;in terms of ecology,collaborating with internet technology companies and enhancing ecological,scenario and technological enabling;in terms of channels,collaborating with rural service and focusing on channel linkage,offline network,mobile services and village financial officers,etc.;and in terms of cooperation,constructing the common infrastructure of SMS rural banks and boosting the efficiency of digital enabling innovation.

How Does Digital Finance Promote Household Consumption:An Analysis Based on Micro Survey Data

The inexorable rise of digital finance has lead to huge changes in consumption patterns.Under this background,we match the index of Digital Financial Inclusion with data of the China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)to explore the relationship between digital finance and household consumption.Firstly,based on sub-sample empirical analysis,we find that digital finance has helped increase urban household consumption,especially the basic consumption related to life,in China.Secondly,we discuss the mechanism of digital finance to promote household consumption,concluding that the payment convenience of digital finance has accelerated household consumption decisions,thereby promoting consumption growth.Moreover,digital finance can also promote household consumption by reducing the uncertainty faced by family.

Does digital finance drive the green level of transportation companies?Coordination effects of governmental digital preference

This paper examines the influence of digital finance(DF)on the green level of transportation companies(GLTC,n=112)listed on the Chinese A-share market from 2011 to 2021 through moderation and mediation models.According to the conclusions,first,a significantly positive correlation exists between DF and GLTC.Second,DF indirectly promotes GLTC by enhancing corporate value and alleviating financing constraints.Both enterprise value and financing constraints have a chain mediation effect.Third,the government's digital preference can enhance the role of DF in promoting GLTC and alleviating financing constraints.In addition,governmental digital preference can moderate the impact of financing constraints on GLTC.Fourth,the effect of DF on GLTC exhibits regional,scale,and ownership heterogeneities.Drawing on the conclusions of the empirical analysis,several pertinent recommendations are proposed from micro and macro perspectives.