Can E-commerce Promote Regional Population Growth?:Correlation Study Based on the Yangtze River Delta Census and B2B E-commerce Data
Based on the data of the sixth and seventh China Population Census and B2B e-commerce enterprises,this paper studies the population change characteristics and e-commerce development level at the county(city)scale in the Yangtze River Delta,and conducts a correlation analysis between the number of e-commerce enterprises and the population change,to explore the relationship between e-commerce development and regional population growth.It finds that the development of e-commerce can affect the evolution trend of population migration and effectively promote the growth of regional population,but the effect has obvious regional differences.It finds that the development of e-commerce can affect the evolution trend of population migration and effectively promote the growth of regional population,but the effect has obvious regional differences.The underdeveloped with a certain economic development foundation area is the most obvious population growth of e-commerce development.For example,the unit is a county(city)in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces,but a municipal district in Anhui province.
e-commercepopulation growthpopulation migrationinfluencethe Yangtze River Delta Region