Research on the Impact of Digital Trade on the Upgrading of Industrial Institutions—Based on China's Provincial Panel Data from 2013 to 2022
As a burgeoning force in global trade development,digital trade holds significant implications for advancing China's industrial structure upgrading.Drawing upon data from 30 provinces in China spanning 2013-2022,this study employs benchmark regression analysis and the Spatial Durbin Model to delve into the role of digital trade in fostering the optimization and upgrading of industrial structures.Our findings reveal that digital trade exerts a notably positive influence on industrial structure upgrading.Furthermore,the vigorous growth of digital trade exhibits spatial spillover effects,suggesting that it not only propels the upgrading of local industrial structures but also inadvertently imposes a certain degree of negative spatial spillover on neighboring regions,thereby influencing their own industrial structure upgrading processes.Finally,based on these conclusions,policy recommendations are proposed to consolidate infrastructure construction,increase R&D investment,and give full play to the role of the government.
Digital TradeIndustrial Structure UpgradingSpillover EffectSpace Dubin