Study on the Development Level and the Spatio-Temporal Characteristic of Hunan Province's Digital Economy
Based on panel data of Hunan province and 14 cities and prefectures from 2018 to 2022,by constructing a measurement index system for the development level of digital economy in Hunan province from four dimensions:digital foundation,digital environment,digital application,and digital innovation,this paper first used the entropy weight TOPSIS method to measure and analyze the development level of digital economy in Hunan province from multiple dimensions,including regions,cities and prefectures,and years;then,by constructing the Moran's I index,this paper calculates the spatial differences in the development level of digital economy among 14 cities and prefectures in Hunan province.The research results show that:From the perspective of time evolution characteristics from 2018 to 2022,the overall development level of Hunan's digital economy continued to rise with a trend of"seeking progress while maintaining stability",except for a few cities and prefectures in Hengyang,Yueyang,and Chenzhou that experienced a brief decline,the development lev-el of digital economy in other cities and prefectures has increased to varying degrees.At the same time,from the per-spective of cities and prefectures,there are still significant differences among them.The development level of digital e-conomy in cities and prefectures such as Changsha,Xiangtan,Zhuzhou,Yueyang,and Hengyang is higher than the av-erage level in the province,and they are in the leading position,While Zhangjiajie City and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefec-ture have relatively lower comprehensive development levels,and it exhibits a spatial adjacency relationship of"strongly adjacent to strong,weakly dependent on weak"in space.
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