Coordinated Development Evaluation and Influencing Factors of the Digital Economy and New Energy Battery Industry Agglomeration:The Case of the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region
The new energy battery industry is a strategic emerging industry in China,with many battery material enterprises and wide distribution.Playing a digital economy empowerment mechanism is necessary to promote healthy development.The correlation between the digital economy and new energy battery industry agglomeration development was evaluated by the degree of industrial coordination,taking the Pan-Pearl River Delta(PPRD)region as an example.The degree of coupling coordination between the digital economy and the new energy bat-tery material industry for every province in this region was empirically analyzed.The results showed that the level of digital economy and new energy battery industry agglomeration in the PPRD region was rising in 2014-2021,but the coupling and coordination between the two industries was not high.Among them,Guangdong province was at a high-quality level of coordination;the coordination of Sichuan,Jiangxi,and Fujian were in a gradual growth trend;while the coordination of the other provinces had not changed much,and all were at a low level.The Tobit model was used to analyze the driving factors,which showed that the level of innovation,financial development,government support,and opening up to the outside world had a positive impact on the degree of coupling and co-ordination.Accordingly,corresponding policy recommendations have been put forward.
digital economynew energy battery industryindustrial agglomerationcoordinated developmentPan-Pearl River Delta region