Table 4. Necessity tests for individual conditions of the QCA method.

Condition Variables	High-level carbon emission performance		Non-high-level carbon emission performance
	Consistency	Coverage	Consistency	Coverage
Energy consumption	0.485023	0.582699	0.886076	0.775087
Non-energy consumption	0.812788	0.907396	0.522943	0.42508
Industrial structure	0.652074	0.806268	0.590981	0.532051
Non-industrial structure	0.621544	0.676065	0.78481	0.621554
Technological innovation	0.663595	0.897196	0.398734	0.392523
Non-technological innovation	0.550691	0.55711	0.89557	0.659674
Government support	0.732143	0.868763	0.484177	0.418319
Non-government support	0.509793	0.575797	0.848101	0.697463
Economic development	0.718894	0.899784	0.422468	0.385004
Non-economic development	0.508641	0.547427	0.890032	0.697458
Demographic factors	0.602535	0.772526	0.49288	0.460118
Non-demographic factors	0.578917	0.610571	0.756329	0.580802