Exploring the Synergistic Development Level and Benefits of Intangible Cultural Heritage Transmission and Green Governance in China

In the current context, where global ecological governance overly relies on technological intervention while neglecting the role of social and cultural resources, intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as a carrier of traditional ecological wisdom, is facing a crisis of inheritance disruption in the process of modernization. The ecological governance value it contains has not been effectively explored and integrated, resulting in a dual predicament of ecological protection and cultural inheritance. This study employs quantitative empirical methods to explore the characteristics of the synergistic development of Chinese ICH transmission and green governance, empirically test the benefits and regional differences of the synergy, and evaluate the promoting role of the digitalization process. The core conclusions are that (1) the synchronized evolution of the ICH transmission and green governance manifests itself as slowly but unequally gradual, with path dependency, club convergence across top performers, and spatially radiating demonstration effects; (2) the synergistic effects of the ICH transmission and green governance give rise to social, environment, and market benefits, but synergistic effects are culturally and regionally heterogeneous; and (3) the digital-intelligent transformation plays a multiplier effect in the process of generating multiple benefits through the synergy of ICH transmission and green governance.