Research on Digital Countryside Construction to Promote Common Prosperity of Urban and Rural Areas Based on China Provincial Panel Data
The construction of digital countryside is an important practical path to realize the common prosper-ity of urban and rural areas.Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020,this paper con-structed a digital rural evaluation index system and empirically explored the impact of digital rural construction on the urban and rural common prosperity.Results show as follows.(1)It has been found that the construction of dig-ital countryside is conducive to narrowing the income gap between urban and rural areas,thus promoting the com-mon prosperity.(2)The results of heterogeneity show that the construction of digital countryside has a stronger pro-moting effect on the eastern region.(3)Mechanism analysis shows that the non-agricultural employment is an im-portant path for the construction of digital countryside to promote the common prosperity.(4)The level of digital countryside construction has a spatial spillover effect on the common prosperity.
digital countrysidecommon prosperityurban-rural income gapspatial spillover effect