Influence of Digital Technology on Integrated Development of Logistics Industry and Modern Agriculture
In recent years,digital technology has gradually become a new engine to promote the develop-ment of various industries,and digital industrialization and industrial digitization have greatly improved the development efficiency of industries across the board.As an important production-oriented service industry,logistics plays an indispensable role in the produc-tion,processing,and sales of modern agricultural products,and the integrated development of the two indus-tries has important implications.Digital technology,with its wide coverage,strong penetration and high in-novativity,is accelerating the deep integration of the two industries.Therefore,it is of great significance to study the influence of digital technology on the integrated development of logistics and modern agriculture through theoretical and empirical analysis.Based on the core concepts of digital technologies,we deeply analyzed the mechanism of digital technolo-gy promoting the integrated development of logistics and modern agriculture,and put forward four research hypotheses,which are,specifically,digital technologies directly promote the integrated development of logis-tics industry and modern agriculture;digital technologies indirectly promote the integrated development of logistics industry and modern agriculture by enhancing innovation;digital technologies indirectly promote the integration of logistics industry and modern agriculture by improving market environment;and digital technologies indirectly facilitate the integration of logistics industry and modern agriculture by promoting the effective connection between urban and rural areas.Then,using panel data from 30 provinces,autonomous regions and municipalities(Tibet Autonomous Region was excluded due to lack of data)on the mainland of China from 2011 to 2021,we calculated the coupling coordination development level of the two industries and conducted an empirical analysis on the extent to which digital technologies drive the integration of the two industries with a two-way fixed effect model.The result shows that(1)digital technologies have significant direct promoting effect on the integration of logistics industry and modern agriculture.Moreover,by stimulating the vitality of innovation and enhancing the effective connection between urban and rural areas,the integration level of the two industries is indirect-ly promoted.(2)The boost of digital technology in the integrated development of the two industries is the greatest in the central region,followed by the western region,and then the eastern region,maybe a result of the law of diminishing marginal returns.(3)Urbanization level,population density,social consumption level and transportation convenience also have significant positive promoting effects on the integrated development level of the two industries.According to the above conclusion,we put forward countermeasures and suggestions,such as developing digital technology and promoting its balanced development in the eastern region,central region and western region,striving to improve the development level of China's logistics industry and modern agriculture and promoting the balance of the three regions.
digital technologylogistics industrymodern agricultureintegrated developmentcoupling coordination degree
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