As a product of the high integration of information resources and social economy, the digital e.conomy has become an important force for enhancing urban economic resilience. Based on the national regionamajor strategy of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle and the construction of a national digital economy in-novation and development pilot zone, this study analyzes the mechanism and efects of the digital economy onenhancing urban economic resilience in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle from an innovation perspective.using panel data from cities at and above the prefecture level from 2011 to 2021. The results show that the digital economy significantly promotes urban economic resilience, and enhancing innovation capability is an impor.tant mechanism for the digital economy to empower the improvement of urban economic resilience. The digital economy has characteristics of nonlinear increasing marginal effects and spatial spillovers in enhancing urban eco.nomic resilience. Compared with peripheral cities, the digital economy in central cities has a stronger positiveelfect on improving urban economic resilience. Therefore, it is necessary to aggregate innovation elements, stimulate innovation potential, further unleash the dividend of the digital economy, improve the urban economic system , collaboratively enhance urban economic resilience, and promote high-quality development in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle.