New energy demonstration urban construction enhances ecological environmental resilience: evidence from China
Lei Li, Xinshuai Xue, Zengkun Yang, Jiamin Liu, Zedong Yang, Yaqian Ruan · 2026
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Lei Li and five colleagues asked in 2026 whether China's new-energy demonstration cities became more resilient to ecological damage. Renewable energy is central to tackling degradation, resource depletion, and climate risk. The demonstration-city policy is a major tool for spreading it, but its effect on ecological resilience had not been measured with modern causal methods. The team analysed panel data for 283 prefecture-level and larger cities from 2011 to 2022, using a double machine learning model.
Demonstration-city status emerged as an important driver of higher ecological resilience. Three pathways carried the effect: upgrading industrial structure, green technology innovation, and changing energy consumption. Effects varied with geography and with how resource-rich a city was, so the same policy did not land evenly everywhere. The authors offer the findings as guidance for refining and extending the programme.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lei Li, Xinshuai Xue, Zengkun Yang, Jiamin Liu, Zedong Yang, Yaqian Ruan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 107 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |