School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 1;20(3):2621. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032621.
This study examines the impact of foreign direct investment in forestry, a prominent phenomenon in China, on forestry industry structure upgrading, using comprehensive economic theory and the panel data of 27 provinces from 2003 to 2019 in China. We used fixed and moderating effect models, and regional heterogeneity tests were conducted. Our results indicate that, at the national level, foreign direct investment in forestry and labor migration promotes forestry industry structural upgrading. In addition, our results indicate that labor migration as a moderating variable weakly promotes forestry industry structural upgrading via foreign direct investment in forestry, and these effects have regional heterogeneity. Finally, different control variables also have influence on forestry industry structural upgrading, such as the number of forestry stations. Based on these empirical results, we provide an explanation and give policy implications, such as developing secondary and tertiary forestry industries, building forestry infrastructure, and improving the efficiency of forestry foreign investment utilization to promote the optimization of the forestry industry structure in China.
本研究利用综合经济理论和中国 2003 年至 2019 年 27 个省份的面板数据，考察了外国直接投资对中国林业产业结构升级的影响。我们使用了固定效应和调节效应模型，并进行了区域异质性检验。结果表明，在全国范围内，林业外国直接投资和劳动力迁移促进了林业产业结构升级。此外，结果还表明，劳动力迁移作为一个调节变量，通过林业外国直接投资对林业产业结构升级起到了弱促进作用，并且这些影响具有区域异质性。最后，不同的控制变量也对林业产业结构升级产生影响，例如林业站的数量。基于这些实证结果，我们提供了一个解释，并给出了政策含义，例如发展林业的二、三产业，建设林业基础设施，提高林业外国投资利用效率，以促进中国林业产业结构的优化。
