Abstract:

With the promotion of digital China construction, digital inclusive finance plays an important role in implementing the new development concept and promoting the improvement of green total factor productivity. This paper uses the economic and social data of 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China from 2011 to 2020 to study the impact of digital inclusive finance on green total factor productivity using fixed effect model and intermediary effect model. The results show that digital inclusive finance effectively promotes the promotion of green total factor productivity, and this promotion is more obvious in the eastern and western regions. Digital inclusive finance has significant intermediary effect in promoting green total factor productivity, that is, digital inclusive finance improves green total factor productivity through three channels: technological progress, industrial structure upgrading, and technological progress-industrial structure upgrading. In this regard, we should promote the development of digital inclusive finance by improving the regional basic hardware equipment and popularizing the concept of digital inclusive finance, and training professional financial talents, so as to improve total factor productivity.

Key words: high-quality development, digital economy, digital inclusive finance, green total factor productivity, mechanism of action