The Impact of Digital Government Construction on Digital Finance -Empirical Test Based on the E-government Index of 31 Provinces in China

As the digital era dawns, digital government construction and digital financial development play an important role in optimising the market environment and improving the reach of credit, and have become an important force for social progress and high-quality economic development. Digital government construction can promote digital financial development through information sharing, improving the legal environment and promoting market-oriented reform. This paper investigates the impact of digital government construction on digital financial development at the provincial level by using individual fixed-effects models with Chinese provincial panel data from 2018-2021. The study shows that the enhancement of digital government construction significantly increases the degree of local digital finance development. The government should pay attention to the digital construction of platforms, establish government databases, promote data sharing, strengthen financial regulation, and promote the process of financial digitisation.