Table 1 Seven major contributions.
From: Impact of green digital finance on sustainable development: evidence from China’s pilot zones
Aspects | Details |
|---|---|
Building a green financial information management system | A green credit management and information inquiry platform capable of “T + 1” high-frequency data collection, loan business verification, data monitoring and analysis, and systematic performance evaluation, with traceable, comparable, and measurable data |
Identifying green finance projects | A digital green project database that incorporates the green finance information management system; the big data system is used to capture project information, intelligently identify green projects, and support offline manual evaluation |
Building a green finance big data system | The system contains ten primary functional modules: visual presentation, statistical monitoring of green finance, green finance evaluation, green financing, green professional services, green finance information sharing, green finance support toolbox, cross-regional innovation platform, international collaboration, and e-government. There are also 40 secondary functional modules. The system is capable of collecting, managing, processing and analyzing data, providing green professional services, automatically linking financing information, and utilizing and managing monetary policy tools |
Establishing a cloud platform with integrated services for green finance | Three main service functions: assessing the greenness of enterprises and projects, matching capital and project information, and rapidly connecting banks and enterprises. It provides small and medium enterprises with financial services such as bank loans, equity financing, and green assessment, and supports their green and sustainable development |
Empowering green credit through digital finance | Green loans for small and microbusinesses are developed from online commercial banks, and a green financial service system for small and microbusinesses is underway. Green inclusive finance is supported by the development of digital banks |
Supporting green bonds | China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd. (CCDC) has researched and established the China Bond-Green Bond Environmental Benefit Information Disclosure Index System and the Green Bond Database; it has taken the lead in applying this system in the pilot zones |
Supporting the development of carbon finance | A digital platform has been built for carbon accounts that integrates carbon finance with industry, energy, construction, transportation, and other fields in the pilot zones. The use of carbon efficiency codes is encouraged. A digital index is established for carbon efficiency |