Informatization Impact,Digital Government and Export Structural Upgrading
The information revolution is increasingly impacting the world economy.The dig-italization of government departments has become a key area of competition for national soft pow-er.In recent years,increasing the technological content of export products and optimizing the structure of export trade have become important strategic choices for China to build a trading powerhouse.At this stage,promoting the digital transformation of government departments and accelerating the construction of digital governments have gradually become the key driving force for China's open economy to develop to a higher level in the digital economy era.This paper uses big data and machine learning methods to measure the digital government construction index of various prefecture-level cities in China,and utilizes the Chinese Customs Database,BACI Database,and WDI Database to calculate the export technological sophistication of each city.We also empirically examine the impact of digital government construction on export structure upgrading.The empirical results show that digital government construction can promote the upgrading of export structure.Series of causal inference and robustness tests have verified the reliability of this conclusion.Heterogeneity analysis shows that digital government construction can overcome the"digital divide"to promote the upgrading of exports,and has a greater impact on the central regions,western regions and regions with weak demographic dividends.The mechanism analysis demonstrates that digital government construction facilitates the upgrading of export structure through the effects of innovation-driven growth,expansion of intermediate variety imports,and the establishment of a unified national market.Furthermore,digital government construction can promote export structure upgrading by promoting resource reallocation among cities and facilita-ting product entry or exit.Extended analysis reveals that smart city construction can effectively collaborate with digital government to jointly drive China's export structure upgrading.The policy implications are as follows:Firstly,it is imperative to further enhance the high-quality construction of a digitized government,facilitate the deep integration of an efficient mar-ket and a promising government,and drive China's export structure upgrade through the digitali-zation reform of the government.Secondly,it is essential to promote the balanced development of digitization in all prefecture-level cities nationwide,thereby empowering the establishment of a unified national market and leveraging the transformative role of government functions in"digital trade".Thirdly,efforts should be made to enhance the construction of digital infrastructure,gradually eliminate multidimensional"digital divide",and create favorable conditions for nurtur-ing new advantages in China's export trade during this era characterized by a digital economy.
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