数字经济中互联网发展与产业结构升级的机制检验及区域异质性

Mechanism Test and Regional Heterogeneity of Internet Development and the Upgrading of Industrial Structure in the Digital Economy

摘要:

中国正处在产业结构调整的关键时期。互联网通过链接实体经济,能够促进产业深度融合、把握数字化发展新机遇,最终推动产业结构升级。本文力图揭示中国互联网发展对产业的协同集聚、结构升级的影响,探寻中国东部、中部和西部互联网发展水平的区域差异是否对产业协同集聚和结构升级产生异质性作用。实证研究表明：互联网发展水平的提高会促进协同集聚,进而促进产业结构升级,协同集聚起中介作用。区域异质性检验结果显示：互联网发展显著促进中部和西部地区的协同集聚,协同集聚的中介作用仅在中部和西部地区显著存在。

Abstract:

China is currently in a critical period of industrial restructuring. By linking the real economy, the Internet can promote the deep integration of industries, grasp the new opportunities of digital development, and finally promote the upgrading of industrial structure. This study tries to reveal the impact of China"s Internet development on industrial collaborative agglomeration and structural upgrading, explore whether the regional differences of Internet development levels in eastern, central and Western China have a heterogeneous effect on industrial collaborative agglomeration and structural upgrading. Empirical results shows that the improvement of the development level of the Internet will promote collaborative agglomeration, and then promote the upgrading of industrial structure, and collaborative agglomeration plays an intermediary role. The results of regional heterogeneity test show that the development of Internet significantly promotes the collaborative agglomeration in the central and western regions, the intermediary role of collaborative agglomeration exists only in the central and western regions.