Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and a characteristic of the Chinese path to modernization. As an important force driving high-quality economic growth, the digital economy is inevitably a crucial support for achieving common prosperity. This study employs bibliometric techniques to explore research hotspots in existing literature, followed by content analysis using structured review to identify research trends and propositions. The analysis reveals that most literature can be summarized as promoting macroeconomic development, enhancing productive capacity, and realizing the sharing of development outcomes. Based on these findings, this paper proposes a path for the digital economy to empower the transformation of the economic base and superstructure to achieve common prosperity. Finally, it combines the issues identified during the research to propose strategies for overcoming these challenges.
Kang et al. (Sat,) studied this question.