New quality productivity and per capita carbon emissions:Based on panel data of 224 prefecture-level cities nationwide
ZHU Siyuan
Abstract：New-quality productivity is a green productivity that promotes the realization of the"dual carbon goals"and is an advanced productivity led by scientific and technological innovation.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the impact of new-quality productivity on per capita carbon emissions under the background of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.Based on the panel data of 224 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2023,this paper first calculates the new-quality productivity index of each prefecture-level city,and then constructs a measurement model to deeply analyze the impact and mechanism of new-quality productivity on per capita carbon emissions.The results show that:① The development of new-quality productivity can significantly reduce per capita carbon emissions.② The heterogeneous results show that the impact of new-quality productivity on per capita carbon dioxide emissions is more significant in popular tourist cities and low-carbon pilot cities.③ The mechanism test analysis shows that new-quality productivity reduces per capita carbon emissions by promoting the development of green innovation technologies and the overall upgrading of the industrial structure.
Keywords：new quality productivitygreen innovation technologyoverall upgrading of industrial structureper capita carbon emission
Publication Date：2025-10-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-12-02(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 15-22 )