Does Local Government Green Attention Promote Green Total Factor Productivity?

Xiaowen Wang and Xuyou Wang ()
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Xiaowen Wang: School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Xuyou Wang: School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 19, 1-21

Abstract: Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is critical for balancing economic benefits and ecological constraints. While most existing studies emphasize the pivotal role of governments in GTFP enhancement, they predominantly treat governments as homogeneous entities, overlooking the fundamental premise of local government attention allocation. Analyzing 2010–2020 data from 285 Chinese cities, this study reveals that increased local government green attention significantly stimulates GTFP through three channels: fostering green technology collaboration among firms, deepening green involvement of public research institutions, and elevating green innovation quality. Heterogeneity analyses demonstrate amplified effects in cities characterized by intense intergovernmental competition, stringent intellectual property protection, robust fiscal capacity, and advanced technological infrastructure, but attenuated impacts in resource-dependent regions with heavy reliance on extractive industries.

Keywords: local government green attention; green total factor productivity; green technology innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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