Coordinated evolution and driving factors of green development and common prosperity in China
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Advancing the coordinated and mutually beneficial development of green development and common prosperity is an objective requirement for constructing modernization with Chinese characteristics. Based on clarifying the mechanisms of the coordinated evolution, this study employs the Haken model to quantitatively measure the relationship between green development and common prosperity and characterize the spatial and temporal patterns of the synergistic relationship between the two. Finally, the random forest model is used to analyze the driving factors affecting their coordinated evolution. The results indicate that: (1) From 2011 to 2022, China's green development efficiency and common prosperity index showed a fluctuating growth. The national green development has progressed to form a distinct northwest to southeast gradient differentiation pattern, with the Beijing and the Yangtze River Delta leading in advancing common prosperity. (2) During the study period, the level of synergy between green development and common prosperity rose significantly, presenting a spatial pattern of "stronger in the east and weaker in the west", a continuous narrowing of regional differences, and the type of synergistic evolution in each region showing phased positive development. (3) The economic foundation, industrial structure, environmental regulation, financial development and digital economy can more stably promote the benign synergy and interaction between green development and common prosperity, while the driving role of government regulation first rises and then falls. The results of the study can provide a reference for China's collaborative promotion of comprehensive economic and social green transformation and common prosperity.
Source: 自然资源学报
Authors: Lin ZHAO, Chun-ting ZHANG, Fu-you GUO, Dian-ting WU
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412954802