This paper investigates the impact of quality language education on green economic growth in 23 Chinese provinces from 2010 to 2021. Using the ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag) approach and Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator, the findings show that a 1% increase in quality language education improves sustainable economic growth by 0.69% (short-term) and 0.01% (long-term). Sustainable electricity generation positively impacts green growth, while waste generation negatively impacts it. Green investment also correlates positively with sustainable growth. Policy recommendations include expanding education for sustainable development (ESD), improving social literacy on sustainable power generation, and enhancing SME education for green job creation and investment.

Ming Zhang, XueJiao Wei, Aidi Xu