Abstract
The smart city is a novel urban innovation model which can exert a great influence on urban green development. Using the 2004–2018 panel data from 285 cities in China, our article adopts the DID method to empirically examine the influence of smart city policy (SCP) on urban green and low-carbon development and its transmission mechanisms. Results display the SCP contributions to promoting urban green and low-carbon development. When we run the various robustness tests, the conclusions remain valid. The heterogeneity test shows that, in large cities and resource-based cities, the promotion effect is more obvious. We further test its transmission mechanism and find that SCP enhances urban green and low-carbon development by raising urban technical innovation levels, upgrading the construction of smart infrastructure and optimizing the quality of smart management and services.
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