Abstract:Under the new pattern of "dual circulation" economic development, in order to better guide the financial sector to avoid the false and serve the innovation input of the real economy, the paper analyzes the impact path of digital finance on regional innovation from the perspective of domestic and international dual circulation. Using the balanced panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2019, regression model and intermediary effect model are used for empirical analysis, and regional financial supervision and industrial structure upgrading factors are introduced for heterogeneity analysis. The results show that digital finance and its sub indexes can positively promote regional innovation, among which the depth of use is the largest, the degree of digitalization is the second, and the coverage is the smallest; Digital finance promotes regional innovation through "double circulation", promotes residents' consumption and credit level through internal circulation, and promotes foreign direct investment and international trade through external circulation; In the case of high financial supervision intensity and high proportion of the secondary industry, the promotion effect of digital finance is stronger. Finally, it puts forward countermeasures and suggestions from four aspects: speeding up the digital transformation of traditional financial industry, forming the development impetus of regional innovation level of supply and demand synergy, scientific and technological driven financial regulatory innovation and the combination of digital finance and real economy.