数字经济促进高质量发展:生产效率提升与消费扩容

Digital Economy Drives High-quality Economic Development: Efficiency Improvement and Consumption Promotion

数字经济在推动我国效率变革和激活消费市场方面发挥了重要作用,逐渐成为推动经济高质量发展的新动能、新引擎。文章实证研究了数字经济对经济高质量发展的影响,并进一步基于中介效应模型对数字经济通过促进生产效率和消费提升驱动经济高质量发展的机制进行了检验。研究结果表明:首先,数字经济整体上可以促进经济高质量发展;其次,数字经济可以通过拉动消费水平间接驱动经济高质量发展,但消费结构升级的中介效应却不显著;最后,在测度我国三次产业的生产效率后发现,与第二产业相比,数字经济通过促进第三产业驱动高质量发展的作用更大。因此,把握数字经济战略机遇,加强数字经济与传统产业融合,加快数字化消费转型,有利于推动我国经济高质量发展。

At present, China’s digital economy is booming and has become a new driving force and engine to promote high-quality economic development. This paper constructs the development indicators of digital economy in China’s provinces, and empirically studies the influence and mechanism of digital economy on high-quality development. The results show that:First of all, digital economy helps to promote high-quality development, which is still valid after endogenous problem processing and robustness test. Secondly, the mediating effect test shows that digital economy can drive high-quality development by promoting the consumption level, but the mediating effect of consumption structure upgrading is not significant. Finally, the paper measures the production efficiency of China’s three industries, and tests the intermediary effect of the production efficiency of the three industries. The results show that digital economy can drive high-quality development by promoting the production efficiency of the secondary industry and the tertiary industry, and the intermediary effect of the production efficiency of the tertiary industry is relatively greater. However, the intermediary effect of the production efficiency of the primary industry is not significant. Therefore, grasping the strategic opportunity of digital economy, strengthening the integration of digital economy and traditional industries, and speeding up the transformation of digital consumption are conducive to promoting the high-quality development of China’s economy.