Emotion recognition and understanding is one of the core functions of human-like intelligent machines, and plays a more and more important role in the high-quality development of digital economy. At this stage, the computing system that makes intelligent, sensitive and friendly response to emotions is being applied in many fields. The continuous improvement of the anthropomorphism of the computer has brought about the innovation and reform of the human-computer coexistence social interaction mode, formed a new demand growth point, and plays a great pulling role in the economic and social development. The relationship between affective computing and consumption transformation and upgrading, manufacturing digital transformation and digital economic governance is explained. By searching the literature published in CSSCI journals on “emotional computing” and “digital economy” from 2014 to 2021 through CNKI, it is found that the number of papers published in recent years has shown a significant growth trend. The research focus has gradually shifted from core technology driven to application scenario driven, with more emphasis on problem oriented and demand oriented. Based on the internal logic of emotional computing and the high-quality development of digital economy, the policy suggestions is summarized to effectively promote the high-quality development of digital economy in China through emotional computing technology innovation.