What determines the performance of low-carbon cities in China? Analysis of the grouping based on the technology—Organization—Environment framework

• Weidong Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weidong Chen, Quanling Cai

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

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• Quanling Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weidong Chen, Quanling Cai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 1022209089@tju.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, College of Politics and Public Administration, Qinghai Minzu University, Xining, Qinghai Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9982-4901

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• Kaisheng Di,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Department of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, College of Politics and Public Administration, Qinghai Minzu University, Xining, Qinghai Province, China, Department of Party Committee, Party School of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of CPC, Xining, Qinghai Province, China

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• Dongli Li,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, College of Chunming, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan Province, China

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• Caiping Liu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, College of Politics and Public Administration, Qinghai Minzu University, Xining, Qinghai Province, China

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• Mingxing Wang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation College of Finance and Economics, Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai Province, China

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• Sichen Liu,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation College of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

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• Zhensheng Di,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation College of Politics and Public Administration, Qinghai Minzu University, Xining, Qinghai Province, China

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• Qiumei Shi

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Health Education Services Department, Xining Aier Eye Hospital, Xining, Qinghai Province, China

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