Can Smart City Building Promote Urban Digital-Reality Integration?——Evidence Based on"Quasi-Natural Experiments"
Digital-reality integration is an important way for China to build a new development pattern and promote high-quality development.Based on the data of 280 prefecture-level and above cities from the year 2005 to 2021,the paper empirically examines the impact of smart cities on urban digital-real integration and its mechanism.The findings are:the construction of smart cities has significantly promoted the degree of urban digital-reality integration,and its mechanism is realized through the innovation effect,talent concentration effect and the opening-up effect;the promotion effect of smart cities on urban digital-reality integration varies significantly with the location of the cities;the promotion effect of smart cities on the degree of urban digital-reality integration is greater in the central region and mega-cities than in the east and west regions,small and medium-sized and large-scale cities,where the facilitating effect is not significant.This study provides evidence from an urban perspective to promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy,which is of great significance for the realization of Chinese-style modernization and the goal of high-quality development.
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