Green economic development has become a key path to achieve high-quality regional economic development and achieve the strategic goal of “carbon peak and carbon neutrality”. Based on the panel data of 268 prefecture-level cities in China from 2015 to 2022, a fixed-effect model was used to test the impact of government attention allocation intensity on the level of regional green economic development. It is found that the intensity of government attention allocation has a significant positive effect on the improvement of the level of urban green economic development, and the effect is more significant in areas with high public environmental attention and strong government environmental execution, and the upgrading of industrial structure is one of the important intermediary paths of the main effect. After the robustness test, this conclusion still holds.

government attention  /  green economy  /  industrial structure  /  government environmental enforcement  /  public environmental concerns