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The municipal industry-education consortium(MIEC) is a crucial component of the development of education in China, and the provincial-level administrative regions (PARs) are committed to building high-level MIECs. However, there are significant differences in the efficiency of building MIECs in different regions across China. A province is a macro-level industry-education integration ecosystem, whereas a MIEC is a micro-level ecosystem. Symbiotic units such as industrial parks, universities, and enterprises within the provincial industry-education integration ecosystem(PIEIE) cooperate and exchange resources with each other in institutional, innovative, and digital environments to achieve the symbiotic model of industry-education integration, ultimately forming high-level MIECs. Based on the theory of symbiosis and employed the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), this study analyzed the complex causal mechanisms through which symbiotic elements of PIEIEs influenced the construction of high-level MIECs, using data from the 31 PARs in China, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. This paper found that the development of high-level MIECs was not determined by any single symbiotic element; instead, it resulted from the coordinated development and combined effects of three key symbiotic factors: symbiotic units, symbiotic environment, and symbiotic models. There were six configurational pathways to building high-level MIECs, grouped into three types: the “Economy-Driven” model, the “Digital-Enabled Industry-Education Integration” model, and the “Assistance-Driven” model. The findings provide a theoretical foundation and practical guidance for PARs in developing high-level MIECs.市域产教联合体（municipal industry-education consortium，MIEC）是我国教育事业发展的重要支撑环节，各省级行政区（provincial-level administrative regions，PARs）均积极推进高水平市域产教联合体的建设工作。然而，我国不同地区在市域产教联合体的建设效率上存在显著差距。省级行政区属于宏观层面的产教融合生态系统，而市域产教联合体则为微观层面的产教融合生态系统。在省级产教融合生态系统（provincial industry-education integration ecosystem，PIEIE）内部，工业园区、高等院校、企业等共生单元在制度、创新与数字化环境中开展合作并实现资源互通，以此达成产教融合的共生模式，最终形成高水平市域产教联合体。本研究基于共生理论，采用模糊集定性比较分析（fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis，fsQCA）方法，以我国港澳台地区以外的31个省级行政区的相关数据为样本，剖析了省级产教融合生态系统的共生要素对高水平市域产教联合体建设的复杂因果作用机制。研究结果表明，高水平市域产教联合体的发展并非由单一共生要素所决定，而是由共生单元、共生环境与共生模式三大关键共生要素协同发展、共同作用的产物。高水平市域产教联合体的建设共存在六条组态路径，可归纳为三类模式：“经济驱动型”模式、“数字赋能产教融合型”模式以及“帮扶驱动型”模式。本研究结论可为各省级行政区推进高水平市域产教联合体建设提供理论基础与实践指引。