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How to promote energy efficiency through technological progress in China?

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  1. Zhu, Junpeng & Lin, Boqiang, 2022. "Economic growth pressure and energy efficiency improvement: Empirical evidence from Chinese cities," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 307(C).
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  8. Li, Xiaoyan, 2020. "Design of energy-conservation and emission-reduction plans of China’s industry: Evidence from three typical industries," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 209(C).
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  11. Li, Guoxiang & Wu, Haoyue & Jiang, Jieshu & Zong, Qingqing, 2023. "Digital finance and the low-carbon energy transition (LCET) from the perspective of capital-biased technical progress," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
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  13. Jiayu Ru & Jiahui Li & Lu Gan & Jingbing Sun & Sai Wang, 2025. "Urbanization, Digital–Intelligent Integration, and Carbon Productivity: Spatiotemporal Dynamics in the Middle Reaches Urban Agglomeration of the Yellow River," Land, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-29, October.
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  15. Wang, Yafei & Shi, Ming & Zhao, Zihan & Liu, Junnan & Zhang, Shiqiu, 2025. "How does green finance improve the total factor energy efficiency? Capturing the mediating role of green management innovation and embodied technological progress," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
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  17. Yang Sun & Elizabeth Stephen, 2026. "Sustainable Development Pathways: How Fiscal Policy, Green Innovation, and Environmental Governance Shape Ecological Footprints in G‐20 Economies?," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(S2), pages 170-181, March.
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  20. Sun, Xiaojun & Fan, Yee Van & Lei, Yalin & Pan, Ting & Varbanov, Petar Sabev, 2024. "Mechanism of directed technological investment on energy productivity and energy structure: A unified theoretical framework," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).
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  22. Łukasz Brzeziński & Adam Kolinski, 2024. "Challenges of the Green Transformation of Transport in Poland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-34, April.
  23. Sun, Xiaojun & Fan, Yee Van & Lei, Yalin & Si, Chunyan & Cao, Zimin & Varbanov, Petar Sabev, 2025. "Mechanism of environmental regulation on energy productivity, energy structure, and carbon emissions: The role of directed technological progress," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 328(C).
  24. Fan, Min & Lu, Zhixi & Zhou, Yun & Wang, Jian, 2024. "Threshold and spillovers effects of fintech on China's energy dependence on fossil fuel," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
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  26. Che, Shuai & Wang, Jun, 2022. "Policy effectiveness of market-oriented energy reform: Experience from China energy-consumption permit trading scheme," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 261(PB).
  27. You, Jianmin & Zhang, Wei, 2022. "How heterogeneous technological progress promotes industrial structure upgrading and industrial carbon efficiency? Evidence from China's industries," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 247(C).
  28. Xiaoyi Li & Qibo Tian, 2023. "How Does Usage of Robot Affect Corporate Carbon Emissions?—Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-16, January.
  29. Wang, Ying & Deng, Xiangzheng & Zhang, Hongwei & Liu, Yujie & Yue, Tianxiang & Liu, Gang, 2022. "Energy endowment, environmental regulation, and energy efficiency: Evidence from China," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
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  32. Zhu, Yaxi & Ding, Hong & Du, Shanxing, 2024. "Banking competition and regional carbon emissions: Intensifying or suppressing? – Estimation based on a bilateral random frontier model," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  33. Jiang, Weijie & Ye, Mengke & Yang, Xingzhe, 2025. "Market access and firms’ energy intensity: Evidence from China’s highway construction," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
  34. Jiang, Qibo & Tan, Qingmei, 2021. "National environmental audit and improvement of regional energy efficiency from the perspective of institution and development differences," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).
  35. Zhang, Hui & Zhou, Peng & Sun, Xiumei & Ni, Guanqun, 2024. "Disparities in energy efficiency and its determinants in Chinese cities: From the perspective of heterogeneity," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 289(C).
  36. Guanghao Li & Xiaoliang Zhou & Zhe Bao, 2022. "A Win–Win Opportunity: The Industrial Pollution Reduction Effect of Digital Economy Development—A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the “Broadband China” Strategy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-21, May.
  37. Xie, Xin & Barut, Abdulkadir & Mohammed, Kamel Si & Torusdağ, Mustafa, 2024. "Empowering energy access: Exploring financial inclusion's impact on energy poverty in the fragile five economies," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 309(C).
  38. Yuan Jiang & Weidong Wang & Mengyuan Yang & Yahya Njie & Xiaonan Wang, 2024. "Research on the Effect of Clean Energy Technology Diffusion on Energy Poverty," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-19, August.
  39. Liu, Zhen & Diao, Ziyu & Lu, Yuan, 2024. "Can the opening of high-speed rail boost the reduction of air pollution and carbon emissions? Quasi-experimental evidence from China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
  40. Jiang Du & Mengqin Zhao & Ming Zeng & Kezhen Han & Huaping Sun, 2020. "Spatial Effects of Urban Agglomeration on Energy Efficiency: Evidence from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-19, April.
  41. Shen, Jinlong & Zhang, Yu & Chen, Xiaonan, 2024. "Environmental regulation and energy consumption transition of rural residents: A case of China," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 310(C).
  42. Tingying Peng & Jian Tang & Linlin Wang & Bing Zeng & Gang Chen, 2025. "Does green total-factor energy efficiency benefit from advanced policy zones? Evidence from national new areas in China," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-13, December.
  43. Chen, Feng-Wen & Tan, Yulu & Chen, Fengzhang & Wu, Yong-Qiu, 2021. "Enhancing or suppressing: The effect of labor costs on energy intensity in emerging economies," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 214(C).
  44. Jing Xu & Dong Chen & Rongrong Liu & Maoxian Zhou & Yunxiao Kong, 2021. "Environmental Regulation, Technological Innovation, and Industrial Transformation: An Empirical Study Based on City Function in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-23, November.
  45. Lu, Angdi & Zhang, Jiang & Li, Jie, 2023. "The impact of export VAT rebate reduction on firms' pollution emissions: Evidence from Chinese enterprises," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
  46. Chengyu Han & Dongwen Hua & Juan Li, 2023. "A View of Industrial Agglomeration, Air Pollution and Economic Sustainability from Spatial Econometric Analysis of 273 Cities in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-16, April.
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