In the critical stage of promoting the Double Carbon goals (carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060), High energy security threats and a slowing in the fall of carbon emission intensity are two of China's green development challenges. This study examines recent domestic scholars' pertinent research on the mutual promotion of green development and the digital economy. The important role that the digital economy plays in advancing green development is emphasized in this study, which first explains the intrinsic relationship between the two and explains that they are an organic whole of two-way empowerment. Subsequently, this paper centers on systematizing scholarly works regarding the internal mechanisms through which the digital economy fosters green development. A differentiation is made among three distinct pathways via which the digitally driven economy propels green development, the path of technological empowerment, the path of industrial transformation, and the path of governance collaboration. At the level of technological empowerment, it mainly focuses on industrial digital monitoring, precise agricultural planting, and industry-university-research collaborative innovation. The evolution of new business models and the modernization and transformation of established industries are the main topics of industrial transformation. In the field of governance collaboration, digital governance relies on computing power improvement and big data analysis to achieve intelligent environmental monitoring, cross-border collaboration for urban safety, and symmetrical governance information. Finally, this paper evaluates the existing research, points out its shortcomings, and looks forward to future directions.
R. Ren (2025) studied this question.