Spatial characteristics of e-commerce demonstration county and its impact on entrepreneurial vitality
In the new stage of development,stimulating regional endogenous development momentum and enhancing entrepreneurial vitality are the key paths to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.Based on the data of China's e-commerce demonstration county pilots and newly registered enterprises from 2014 to 2020,this paper uses standard deviation ellipse,kernel density analysis and Markov chain to delineate the spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of e-commerce demonstration county pilots and its entrepreneurial vitality.On this basis,taking Yunnan province as an example,the multi-period difference-in-differences model is used to empirically test the impact of e-commerce demonstration counties on local entrepreneurial vitality and its internal mechanism.The results show that:(1)The pilot distribution of e-commerce demonstration counties continues to expand,and the spatiotemporal evolution shows a shift from scattered distribution to a continuous agglomeration distribution relying on multiple cores,with the northwest and southwest regions gradually becoming the focus of policy coverage.Besides,the entrepreneurial vitality of the pilot areas shows an upward trend during the study period.The Matthew chain results show that there is a possibility of the level of entrepreneurial vitality of the pilot transferring to higher-level types,and has a significant Matthew effect.(2)The e-commerce demonstration county pilots significantly improve the local entrepreneurial vitality,and this conclusion is still valid after a series of robustness tests.The pilot policies reduce the restrictions of geographical factors and population size on entrepreneurial vitality,and have a more significant promoting effect on agricultural and finance industry,but their impact on manufacturing industry and technology service industry are not significant.(3)Mechanism analysis shows that the pilot policy improves the development level of traditional and digital finance,promotes agricultural modernization and accelerates infrastructure construction,thereby enhancing local entrepreneurial vitality.(4)Further from the perspective of common prosperity,the e-commerce demonstration county pilots are conducive to increasing farmers'income and narrowing the urban-rural income gap.The above conclusions provide theoretical reference for the strategic decision-making of rural revitalization in the new era,and also provide a feasible path for stimulating regional entrepreneurial vitality from e-commerce demonstration projects.
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