【Purpose/significance】By analyzing the policy driven path of high-quality construction of provincial digital government in China, it is conducive to enrich and improve the internal coordination mechanism of digital government policy in China, and can pro⁃ vide decision support for the digital transformation of our government at the policy level.【Method/process】This paper selects 76 policy texts that have been issued by the governments of 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China, uses content analysis method, with the help of NVivo12 software, and makes a quantitative analysis of the policy texts based on the perspective of policy tools. According to the quantitative analysis results, typical types of policy tools are selected, and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method is used to reveal the causal relationship between different combinations of policy tools and the high-quality construction of digital government, and analyze the policy driven path of the high-quality construction of provincial digital government in China.【Result/conclusion】A single policy tool cannot constitute a necessary condition for the high-quality construction of digital government. There are four types of driving paths for the high-quality construction of digital government (including seven different con⁃ figuration paths), which are supply path, environmental path, supply-environmental path and supply-demand-environmental path.

【Innovation/limitation】Combining the content analysis method with fsQCA method, this paper constructs a theoretical analysis frame⁃ work of the driving path of high-quality construction of provincial digital government from the perspective of policy tools. However, the research conclusion needs to be tested in practice by obtaining more dimensional and fine-grained subjective and objective empirical data. In the future, we can also consider collecting panel data for dynamic QCA configuration analysis.