Effects and mechanism of digital rural construction enabling rural industry revitalization
[Objective]The effects and mechanism of the rural industry revitalization enabled by digital village construction were analyzed,in order to clarify the key tasks of digital village construction,improve the policy system,better play the digital rural strategy to promote the prosperity of rural industry and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.[Method]Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2021,the fixed-effect model and intermediary effect model were used to investigate the effect and mechanism of rural in-dustry revitalization enabled by digital village construction.[Result]The digital village construction had a significant positive effect on promo-ting the revitalization of rural industry;the digitalization of infrastructure,production and circulation of digital village construction significant-ly affected revitalization of rural industry.The positive impact of digital village construction on the revitalization of rural industry showed a de-creasing trend from the west,east and central regions,and the digitalization of circulation significantly promoted the revitalization of rural in-dustry in the eastern region,and the digitalization of infrastructure and production significantly promoted the revitalization of rural industry in the central region.The digitalization of circulation had significantly promoted the revitalization of rural industries in central region.The con-struction of digital countryside could revitalize rural industries by stimulating rural entrepreneurial activity,promoting rural consumption up-grading,and improving farmers'literacy.[Conclusion]Some countermeasures including implementation of regional differentiation of digital rural development strategy,creation of good rural innovation and entrepreneurship environment,enhancement of the influence of digital tech-nology in the field of rural consumption,and improvement of farmers'literacy through multiple channels and in multiple directions were put forward,in order to better play the enabling role of digital village construction on the revitalization of rural industry.
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