This book presents a groundbreaking, triple-framework analysis of how green finance catalyses the low-carbon transformation of China's carbon-intensive sectors. Moving beyond conventional analyses, it uniquely integrates the dimensions of low-carbon digitalization, the Ecological Civilization paradigm, and cutting-edge AI-driven analytical tools. The work rigorously investigates the dual core mechanisms—the Gold & Silver Mountains competition effect and the Green Mountains & Clear Waters endowment effect—that underpin financial innovation within the distinctive China Model. Employing a novel methodological synthesis of intelligent game theory, machine learning algorithms (e.g., neural networks, random forests), and advanced econometrics, the book provides robust empirical evidence on policy effectiveness and regional heterogeneous pathways. It fills a critical research gap by offering a systematic, mechanism-rich examination targeted at graduate students, researchers, and policymakers in sustainable finance, environmental economics, and Chinese political economy, who seek to understand the complex nexus of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero industrial transitions.

Ji Luo is an associate professor, postdoctoral researcher from Tsinghua University and graduate supervisor. He is the executive director of the Wenzhou Regional Development Planning Research Center, the president of the Qinglan Academic Research Institute, and the program director of the International Economics Department at Wenzhou University of Technology. He is also a special researcher of Guangxi University, a visiting scholar at Birmingham City University in the UK, and a council member of the Wenzhou Economic Society. His research mainly focuses on public economics and computational social science. He has led over ten national, provincial, and municipal-level teaching and research projects, including those from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences, and the Shanghai Municipal Government Decision-making Consultation. He has published over 30 articles in well-known domestic and international academic journals, including over ten ESI highly cited papers. He has also co-published English monographs with Springer, an internationally renowned publisher. He has received the title of Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher from Tsinghua University, the second prize of the National Excellent Paper Award from the China Society of Commercial Economics (a national first-class society), and several research reports he wrote have been approved by provincial and ministerial leaders.

Zhixi Gong is a Research assistant of Shanghai Polytecnic University, majoring in international business in the School of Economics and Management. His main research direction is supply chain finance and cross-border investment and financing.