Digital Village Construction and the Quality of Life of Rural Residents——Based on the Perspective of New Structural Economics
Based on the data of CGSS survey in 2021,this paper explores the impact and mechanism role of dig-ital village construction and the quality of life of rural residents.The results show that the construction of digital vil-lages has a positive promoting effect on the quality of life of rural residents,but with the gradual improvement of eco-nomic development,the promotion effect of digital village construction on the quality of life of rural residents will tend to be a marginal decline.In addition,the construction of digital villages can improve the quality of life of rural residents by promoting social participation.Meanwhile,the construction of digital villages has obvious heterogeneity in the impact on the quality of life of rural residents:from the regional perspective,the effect of promotion in the east and the middle is most significant;from the perspective of education level,the group receiving higher education has a negative effect.Furthermore,there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between digital village construction and the quality of life of rural residents,that is,there exists an optimal level of digital village construction.Deviating from the optimal digital village construction will have a negative impact on the quality of life of rural residents.
Digital villagesQuality of life of rural residentsSocial participationOptimal digital village con-structionNew structural economics