Model Innovation and Practical Exploration of Digital Economy Empowering Rural Low-Carbon Development

Abstract

Against the national strategic background of the coordinated advancement of rural revitalization and the "dual carbon" goals, rural low-carbon transformation is a key path to solving the "three rural issues" and achieving a win-win situation for ecology and development. Addressing the structural contradictions currently faced by rural low-carbon development, this study is based on the theory of digital technology empowering sustainable development, constructs a systematic analytical framework of "demand-empowerment-model-guarantee", and refines three scenario-based innovative models: smart agriculture, green e-commerce, and digital cultural tourism. These models accurately respond to the core needs of emission reduction at the production end, carbon reduction at the circulation end, and low-carbon guidance at the consumption end. The research directly confronts four practical bottlenecks: technological adaptation, digital literacy, long-term mechanisms, and collaborative linkage, and proposes comprehensive solutions including technological optimization, literacy improvement, mechanism improvement, and industrial collaboration. The core contributions of this study are as follows: first, it breaks through the limitations of fragmented research on single technology applications and reveals the internal logic of the digital economy empowering rural low-carbon development through the entire chain; second, it builds a bridge between macro policies and micro practices and improves the interactive analysis dimension of "subject-technology-policy"; third, it clarifies the coordinated transformation mechanism of ecological, economic, and social values, providing replicable low-carbon transformation paths for rural areas with different resource endowments. The research conclusions not only enrich the theoretical system of digital technology empowering rural sustainable development but also provide important support for the coordinated implementation of rural revitalization and the "dual carbon" goals.