Empowering Effect of the Digital Economy on High-Quality Economic Development in Jiangxi:A Study from the Perspective of Industrial Structure Upgrading
The digital economy serves as a new driving force and engine for upgrading industrial structures and enhan-cing the quality and efficiency of economic development.With 11 prefecture-level cities in Jiangxi Province from 2005 to 2021 as the research object,this study establishes comprehensive evaluation indicators for both the digital economy and high-quality economic development and employ's the entropy method along with multiple models to empirically examine the relationship between the digital economy and the high-quality development of Jiangxi's economy.The findings indicate that the digital economy empowers the high-quality development of Jiangxi's economy,and that mo-reover,the empowering effect exhibits a non-linear increasing trend with the level of digital economic development.Robustness tests,which involve excluding provincial capital cities,replacing explanatory variables,and adding control variables,consistently support the findings.Industrial structure upgrading serves as a crucial channel through which the digital economy empowers high-quality economic development in Jiangxi,playing a partial mediating role in their relationship.To enhance the empowering effect of the digital economy,strategies such as increased investment in dig-ital infrastructure,strengthened integration of the digital economy with the real economy,and meticulous top-level design for ensuring a digital talent pool are recommended.
digital economyhigh-quality economic developmentindustrial structure upgradingJiangximediating effect