数字经济对产业现代化的影响研究

Research on the Impact of Digital Economy on Industrial Modernization

产业现代化是中国式现代化的物质基础与根本动力,而数字经济正成为推进产业现代化发展的核心力量与重要引擎。从产业结构、产业质量、产业形态多维度界定产业现代化的理论内涵,并据此构建理论分析框架阐释数字经济发展影响产业现代化的理论机理,进一步运用2013—2021年中国地级市数据进行实证检验。研究发现,产业现代化呈现平稳上升的变动趋势,同时,数字经济对产业现代化具有显著的正向促进作用,能够通过偏向性赋能机制、开放式创新机制、要素整合机制对产业现代化产生积极影响。通过对技术积累、产业特征和政策支持等层面的异质性分析发现,数字经济对产业现代化的促进作用在距离前沿技术差距较小、国家产业转型升级示范区以及设立大数据试验区的城市更加显著。据此提出优化数字空间发展,促进数字经济加速渗透,推进企业数字化转型,强化政府引导作用,构建开放式创新生态等政策建议。

Industrial modernization is the material foundation,fundamental driving force,and a decisive factor in China’s modernization.The digital economy,a hallmark of the productivity transition brought about by the new generation of scientific and technological advances and industrial transformation,exhibits key characteristics such as high innovation,strong permeation,and broad applicability.It fosters the development of new high-quality productivity by empowering primary,secondary,and tertiary industries,thereby facilitating a leap in industrial growth.Given this context,constructing an analytical framework to clarify the mechanisms through which the digital economy influences industrial modernization is crucial.It enhances our understanding of how the digital economy contributes to China’s modernization and identifies key pathways for accelerating digital economy growth and promoting industrial modernization.This paper defines industrial modernization through three dimensions:industrial structure,industrial quality,and industrial form.It then constructs a theoretical framework to explain how the development of the digital economy influences industrial modernization.The framework is empirically tested using data from China’s prefecture-level cities between 2013 and 2021.The findings show a steady upward trend in industrial modernization during the observation period.Additionally,the digital economy has a significant positive impact on industrial modernization,exerting its influence through three main mechanisms:biased empowerment,open innovation,and factor integration.A heterogeneity analysis further reveals that the digital economy’s influence is more pronounced in cities with smaller technological gaps,national industrial transformation and upgrading demonstration zones,and big data experimental zones.This paper extends the research in three key areas.First,it broadens the research perspective by integrating modernization theory with industrial economics to define the theoretical connotation of industrial modernization.It also explores how the digital economy impacts industrial modernization,enriching the literature on China’s modernization and industrial development.Second,the paper deepens theoretical insights by combining the essential characteristics of the digital economy with the three dimensions of industrial modernization(structure,quality,and form).The framework systematically explains the biased empowerment,open innovation,and factor integration mechanisms,enhancing the depth of industrial modernization studies.Third,the paper introduces an empirical test using a comprehensive index system based on the theoretical definition of industrial modernization.It measures the development level of industrial modernization in China through vertical and horizontal grading methods and validates the specific mechanisms through empirical models such as the staggered difference-in-differences approach.This provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between the digital economy and the construction of a modern industrial system.