Data Availability

The province-year datasets and supporting materials used in this study are provided in the accompanying Supplementary Data and Code archive. The archive includes the raw and MATLAB-compatible data used for the Global Super-SBM analysis; the corresponding efficiency and productivity-index outputs; the level-form and natural-log panel datasets, spatial-weight matrix and Stata command file used for the spatial econometric analysis; the case-level input data and calibration anchors used for the fsQCA analysis; and the XGBoost-SHAP input data and corresponding figure. The principal study datasets contain 341 observations covering 31 Chinese provinces from 2013 to 2023. The underlying statistical series were compiled from the sources described in the manuscript. No human-participant or personally identifiable data are included.

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