Assessment of coordinated development of digital technology and cultural industries in sustainable environment: evidence from provincial level data in mainland China

This article proposes an analytical framework for evaluating digital technology and cultural industries in a sustainable environment, employing the entropy weight method and the coordinated development model to measure the level of coordinated development of digital technology and cultural industries in each province in the Chinese mainland. The results show that most provinces in mainland China are in the early stage of coordinated development, but some problems have occurred. First, there is still a big gap between the technological innovation of digital technology and the value creation of cultural industries in each province. Second, although most provinces can adopt effective coordinated development plans based on their conditions, certain provinces are still constrained by economic considerations and are in an uncoordinated development stage. Future research will be optimised and improved by concentrating on summarising a more accurate analytical framework and analysis model or locating more pertinent data resources to define and represent each indicator.