Research on the impact of digital empowerment on the low-carbon production of the manufacturing industry

doi:10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2025.06.004

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Abstract: Empowering low-carbon production by digital technology is a key to promote new-quality productive forces of the manufacturing industry. Therefore, in this paper, low-carbon production efficiency was measured by using the super efficiency SBM method, based on the panel data of the manufacturing industry from 2013 to 2022. Green technology innovation and enterprise resilience were also introduced to construct a chain mediation effect model to test the mechanism of how digital empowerment affects low-carbon production efficiency in the manufacturing industry. The results obtained are as follows: (1) Low-carbon production efficiency of China's manufacturing industry exhibits significant spatial and industry heterogeneity, with a decreasing and hierarchical distribution of low-carbon production efficiency values from east to west in space. The efficiency growth rate in the western region is significantly higher than that in the central and eastern regions. The efficiency values of resource processing, automobile manufacturing, and electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing are significantly higher than those of other industries. (2) Digital empowerment improves the low-carbon production efficiency of the manufacturing industry significantly, and the intensity of its impact is increasing year by year. Green technology innovation and enterprise resilience have independent mediating effects in the impact of digital empowerment on low-carbon production efficiency in the manufacturing industry, with the former having a stronger mediating effect than the latter. Digital empowerment also enhances low-carbon production efficiency through a chain intermediary of green technology innovation and enterprise resilience. This paper will provide a theoretical path for the manufacturing industry to unleash the digital empowerment effect fully and to promote low-carbon production, and it will also provide a basis for government departments to optimize and improve industrial policies.

Key words: digital empowerment, green technological innovation, enterprise resilience, low-carbon production efficiency

Liu Qilei, Han Qingye. Research on the impact of digital empowerment on the low-carbon production of the manufacturing industry[J]. Science Research Management, 2025, 46(6): 34-43.

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