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The Digital Economy’s Impact on the High-Quality Development of the Manufacturing Industry in China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

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  • Yuxuan Yang

    (Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China)

  • Haiying Pan

    (Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China)

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Based on the panel data of 108 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2011 to 2021, this study constructs a fixed effect model, a mediating effect model, and a threshold effect model to verify the enabling role, conduction path, and nonlinear effect of the digital economy on the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in the Economic Belt. It is found that the digital economy has remarkably enabled the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in the Economic Belt, with an obviously stronger enabling effect in large-scale cities than in small ones; the digital economy can indirectly affect the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in the Economic Belt through upgraded industrial structure, regional innovation, and residents’ consumption. Subject to environmental regulation, the digital economy’s impact on the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in the Economic Belt has a double-threshold effect. With intensified urban environmental regulation, the digital economy’s promotion effect on the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry has demonstrated a trend of first enhancing and then weakening.

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  • Yuxuan Yang & Haiying Pan, 2024. "The Digital Economy’s Impact on the High-Quality Development of the Manufacturing Industry in China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-26, August.
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