Table 1 Evaluation system for new quality productivity indicators.

From: Study on the influence of new quality productivity on carbon emissions of the manufacturing industry

Level 1 indicators

Level 2 indicators

Level 3 indicators

Explain

Causality

Technological

productivity

Innovative

productivity

Innovative research

and development

Number of domestic patents granted

 + 

Innovation industry

Business income from high-tech industries

 + 

Innovative product

Industrial Innovation Funding for Industrial

Enterprises Above Scale

 + 

Innovation potential

Number of university students as a

proportion of the total population

 + 

Technological

productivity

Technology

research and

development

The full-time equivalent of R&D

personnel in industrial enterprises above

the designated size

 + 

Technical efficiency

Labour productivity of industrial enterprises

on a large scale

 + 

Technology to

produce

Robot-mounted raw density

 + 

Green productivity

Resource-efficient

productivity

Energy intensity

Energy consumption/ GDP

−

Energy structure

Fossil energy consumption/GDP

−

Renewable energy

consumption

Renewable energy electricity

consumption/electricity consumption

of society as a whole

 + 

Environmentally

friendly productivity

Utilization of waste

materials

Comprehensive utilization/generation

of industrial solid waste

−

Wastewater

discharge

Industrial wastewater discharges/GDP

−

Exhaust emission

Industrial SO2 emissions/GDP

−

Environmental

protection efforts

Expenditure on environmental

protection/ government expenditure

on public finance

 + 

Digital productivity

Digital industry

productivity

Electronic

Information

Manufacturing

IC production

 + 

Telecommunications

business

communications

Total telecommunication services

 + 

Industry Digital

Productivity

Internet penetration

Number of Internet broadband access ports

 + 

Software service

Revenue from software operations

 + 

Digital information

Length of fibre optic cable lines/area

 + 

E-commerce

E-commerce sales

 +