The Digital Economy and the Agriculture and Rural Modernization:A Study Based on Prefecture Level Cities
The digital economy is continuously integrating production activities in the rural areas and farmers'lives which deeply affects the process of agricultural and rural modernization.Based on the panel data of 246 prefecture-level cities in China,this paper constructs an evaluation index system for agricultural and rural modernization.The study also analyzes the impact of the digital economy on agricultural and rural modernization from the perspective of factor allocation and its internal mechanisms.The results show that the digital economy has a positive and significant role in promo-ting agricultural and rural modernization.From the three dimensions of agricultural and rural mod-ernization,the digital economy can significantly promote agricultural and rural modernization,but its impact on the modernization of farmers is not significant;Mechanism testing indicates that,the digital economy can improve the level of agricultural and rural modernization by optimizing the allo-cation of technology,capital,and labor factors.This study has found that the effect of the digital e-conomy in promoting agricultural and rural modernization is more evident in non-grain producing areas and areas with higher levels of modernization in agriculture and rural areas.Therefore,accel-erating the full integration of the digital economy in the agricultural sector and rural areas is of ut-most importance.At the same time,it is necessary to optimize the allocation of factors in agricul-tural and rural areas and implement differentiated digital economy strategies.
Digital EconomyAgriculture and Rural ModernizationAgricultural Technology Inno-vationRural Capital InvestmentLabor MobilityFactor Allocation
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