Regional Differences,Dynamic Evolution and Formation Mechanism of Agricultural Digitization Level in China
The digital transformation of agriculture is an important direction and inevitable requirement for transforming traditional agriculture in the digital era.Based on the new structural economics,the theoretical logic of agricultural digital transformation is systematically explained from three dimensions of"basic support-innovation drive-external environment".On this basis,the entropy weight-TOPSIS method is used to measure the level of agricultural digitization,and Dagum's Gini coefficient,Quadratic Assignment Procedure(QAP),and Markov Chain are used to systematically investigate the regional differences,dynamic evolution and formation mechanism of agricultural digitization development in China.The study finds that the level of agricultural digitization in China has increased year by year during the sample period,but the regional heterogeneity is obvious,and the overall spatial distribution pattern of"the Eastern>National>Central>Western"is presented;The spatial decomposition shows that the inter-regional gap is the main reason for the overall difference;From the perspective of formation mechanism,human capital,traditional agricultural infrastructure,government intervention and technological innovation can all influence the spatial imbalance of China's agricultural digitization level,and the influence increases in turn;From the perspective of spatial and temporal evolution,the type of evolution of China's agricultural digitization level is stable,but there exists a certain degree of spatial geographic dependence,and there is an obvious spatial spillover effect.
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