Coordinating the development of the economy and environment has always been a tough challenge. The digital village construction in China offers unprecedented historical opportunities for rural areas to propel coordinated development and catch up with their urban counterparts. This paper used a coupling coordination degree model, exploratory spatial data analysis, and an obstacle degree model to investigate the coupling coordination of digital village construction, economic growth, and the environmental protection system (DEES) in rural China from 2015 to 2021. The results indicate: (1) The cou...
