Digital Economy,Business Environment and Servitization of Manufacturing Industry in China's Western Region
Based on the panel data of 12 provinces in China's western region from 2001 to 2020,this paper conducts an empirical study on the relationship among digital economy,business environment and servitization of manufacturing industry in China's western region.The results show that the digital economy can significantly facilitate the upgrading of service transformation of manufacturing industry in China's western region and further promoting it by"increasing the degree of fiscal decentralization".Heterogeneous results demonstrate that the higher the fiscal decentralization,the more obvious the mediating effect is.At the same time,the digital economy can also improve the service level of manufacturing industry in the region by"stimulating the development of non-state-owned e-conomy",but the mediating effect of marketization process is not fully reflected.Heterogeneity test shows that com-pared with China's northwest region,digital economy plays a more obvious role in promoting manufacturing service in China's southwest region.The above findings provide a new perspective and empirical evidences for a deep un-derstanding of the relationship between digital economy and servitization of manufacturing industry in China's west-ern region,which can help improve the digital economy development policies and the coordinated and high-quality economic development in China's western region.
digital economyservitization of manufacturing industry in China's western regionmarketization processnon-state-owned economydegree of fiscal decentralization