Digital Finance,Industrial Structure Upgrading and High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin
The development of the digital economy has unleashed new vitality for social and economic development.As an important component of the digital economy,digital finance,relying on its advantages of strong availability and high convenience,provides more favorable support for high-quality development.This paper selects the data of 76 cities above prefecture level in the Yellow River Basin from 2011 to 2021 as the research sample,based on the particularity of high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin,explores the impact of digital finance on high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin,and analyzes the intermediary role of industrial structure upgrading.The research conclusions are as follows:firstly,digital finance has significantly promoted the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin and passed the endogeneity test;secondly,digital finance can promote high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin by promoting industrial structure upgrading;thirdly,heterogeneity analysis shows that digital finance has the greatest impact on the upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin,followed by the middle and lower reaches.
Yellow River Basinhigh quality developmentdigital financeupgrading of industrial structure