Indicators of NEU: New Urbanization and Green Innovation in 284 Chinese Cities, 2011-2022

Panel data from 284 Chinese cities spanning 2011 to 2022, used to analyze the impact of New Urbanization (NEU) on urban green innovation. The dataset was created by Liang Fang and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on 2026-05-19.

Use Cases

• Modeling the effect of new urbanization on green innovation quantity based on described panel data.
• Analyzing the moderating role of digital inclusive finance on urban green innovation quality.
• Investigating threshold effects of government green support on the urbanization-innovation relationship.
• Empirical policy analysis for coordinating urbanization and green development agendas.

Strengths

• Panel data covering 284 cities over a 12-year period (2011-2022).
• Statistical models described in the source study show significant results at the 0.01 level.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (9.5 KB), indicating limited scope or aggregated summary statistics.

Provenance

Source

Liang Fang via figshare.

Collection Method

Constructed for empirical analysis using two-way fixed-effects and multivariate moderation models.

Time Range

2011 to 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 17:27:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

284 cities in China