Mechanism and Effect of Digital Economy Empowering High-quality Development of Chinese Cities Based on the Land Use
Based on the data of 30 provincial-level regions in China from 2011 to 2022,this paper explains the theoretical concept of high-quality urban development from the perspectives of innovation,coordination,green,openness,and sharing,and measures the comprehensive level of high-quality urban development and the level of digital economy development from the perspectives of the internet,informatization,digital industry.It explores the mechanism and effect of digital economy empowering high-quality development of Chinese cities through empirical examination.The results are as follows:1)The development trends of digital economy and high-quality urban development are generally good.The digital economy development is higher in the eastern region than that in the western region,followed by the northeastern region and the central region,while the level of high-quality urban development decreases from the east of China to the west of China.2)This paper shows that the digital economy significantly promotes high-quality urban development,with every 1 unit increase in the level of digital economy development leading to a 0.575 unit increase in high-quality urban development.This conclusion remains valid even after considering a series of robustness tests.3)This paper highlights the mediating role of factors such as optimal allocation,industrial structure advancement,and technological progress in the process of high-quality urban development empowered by the digital economy.4)In order to give full play to the economic effect of the development of digital economy and improve the level of high-quality urban development,it puts forward some measures and suggestions that are improving the level of digital economy development to narrow the regional development gap,improving the allocation accuracy and utilization efficiency of urban land elements in the digital economy development,and strengthening the empowering effect of digital economy in the high-quality urban development.
digital economyhigh-quality urban developmentindustrial structuredigitizationmechanismmediating effectnew development concept
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