Digital Economy Enables High-quality Development of Manufacturing Industry in the Yangtze River Delta:Spatial Spillover and Mechanism Identification
Based on the panel data of 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2011 to 2021,this pa-per adopted principal component analysis and SDM to empiric-test the empowering effect of digital economy on the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta and the comprehensive effect of multiple paths.The results show that:The digital economy in the Yangtze River Delta region can not only signifi-cantly enable the high-quality development of local manufacturing industry,but also significantly promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in neighboring regions,with the spatial spillover effect accounting for 79.4%;The digital economy enables the high-quality development of manufacturing industry mainly depends on the accumulation of human capital and physical capital,and human capital and physical capital have a synergistic effect,and the path of consumption power has a deviation effect from both human capital and physical capital.
digital economyhigh-quality development of manufacturing industryspatial spillover effecttransmission mechanismYangtze River Delta