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Article

Does the Digital Economy Promote Upgrading the Industrial Structure of Chinese Cities?

by
Songqin Zhao
1,
Diyun Peng
1,
Huwei Wen
1,2,* and
Huilin Song
3
1
School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
2
Research Center of the Central China for Economic and Social Development, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
3
School of International Economics and Trade, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 10235; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610235
Submission received: 19 July 2022 / Revised: 7 August 2022 / Accepted: 16 August 2022 / Published: 17 August 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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Abstract

As the driving force for the upgrading of the global industrial structure, digital technology has been at the helm of transforming the current economic and technological paradigm. This study empirically analyzes the role of the digital economy in the upgrading industrial structure using panel data from 237 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011–2019. Empirical results show that the development of the digital economy has a significant positive and direct effect on the upgrading of industrial structure, as measured by the two indicators of advancement and servitization. In addition, the digital economy significantly promotes upgrading of the technological progress and human capital of Chinese cities, thus promoting upgrading of the industrial structure. Moreover, the spatial autoregressive model (SAR) and the Spatial Durbin model (SDM) both show that the digital economy has a positive spatial spillover effect on upgrading of the industrial structure.
Keywords: digital economy development; industrial structure; mediation effect model; spatial Durbin model (SDM) digital economy development; industrial structure; mediation effect model; spatial Durbin model (SDM)

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Zhao, S.; Peng, D.; Wen, H.; Song, H. Does the Digital Economy Promote Upgrading the Industrial Structure of Chinese Cities? Sustainability 2022, 14, 10235. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610235

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Zhao S, Peng D, Wen H, Song H. Does the Digital Economy Promote Upgrading the Industrial Structure of Chinese Cities? Sustainability. 2022; 14(16):10235. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610235

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Zhao, Songqin, Diyun Peng, Huwei Wen, and Huilin Song. 2022. "Does the Digital Economy Promote Upgrading the Industrial Structure of Chinese Cities?" Sustainability 14, no. 16: 10235. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610235

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Zhao, S., Peng, D., Wen, H., & Song, H. (2022). Does the Digital Economy Promote Upgrading the Industrial Structure of Chinese Cities? Sustainability, 14(16), 10235. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610235

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