The Impact of New Infrastructure on Ecological Efficiency

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10.2991/978-94-6463-542-3_40How to use a DOI?

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new infrastructure; ecological efficiency; broadband China; human capital; spatial effects

Abstract

The integrated construction of a “digital China” and a “beautiful China” is a major task and a strategic initiative to open up new horizons of modernization. Based on panel data spanning from 2011 to 2021, encompassing 284 prefecture-level and above cities in China, this study employs multi-period Difference-in-Differences (DID) and spatial DID models. These models are constructed following theoretical analyses of the intrinsic mechanisms influencing the ecological efficiency of new infrastructures. Additionally, quasi-natural experiments are conducted based on the policy implementations in the demonstration city of “Broadband China”. The study systematically investigates the impact of new infrastructures on China’s eco-efficiency and elucidates their role within the mechanism. The study found that: new infrastructure construction has a significant effect on eco-efficiency, and this conclusion passed a sequence of robustness test; mechanism analysis shows that new infrastructure construction improves eco-efficiency through improving human capital level; heterogeneity analysis shows that new infrastructure has a more obvious effect on ecological efficiency improvement in eastern and resource cities; and the results of the analysis of the spatial effect show that new infrastructure not only improves eco-efficiency in the pilot cities, but also significantly improves ecological efficiency in the pilot neighboring cities.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aiguo Zhang
AU  - Xiangning Chen
AU  - Jiaqi Zhu
AU  - Shuangjiang Li
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/10/15
TI  - The Impact of New Infrastructure on Ecological Efficiency
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Management Innovation and Economy Development (MIED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 326
EP  - 333
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-542-3_40
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-542-3_40
ID  - Zhang2024
ER  -