Urban green development transformation (UGDT) has become a new direction for Chinese urban development in the 21st century. In this paper, firstly constructs an index system for dynamic assessment of UGDT based on resource consumption, economic development and social welfare, secondly propose a two-stage decomposition to further open the "black box" of UGDT process from the perspective of ecological welfare performance. This paper empirically investigates the evaluation and staged decomposition of the UGDT process in 286 cities of China over the period 2005-2016, and propose improvement paths ...
