Zhou Jianxin, Xia Zhen, Lao Yongshi
Institute for Cultural Industries, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Shenzhen Qijing Consulting Services Limited Company, Shenzhen, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 30;14:1110379. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1110379. eCollection 2023.
Resource curse theory suggests that regions rich in natural resource endowments accumulate adverse economic competitive, but few studies have focused on causes and mechanisms of cultural resource curses. Since the development of the cultural industries is relatively backward in some regions with rich cultural resources in central and western China. Combined with the theory of cultural resources and the resource curse, we build cultural resource endowment and cultural resource curse coefficients and measure the distribution of cultural resource curses based on the dataset of 29 provinces in China covering 2000-2019. The results show that there is a serious cultural resource curse in western China. The causes of the cultural resource curse are multiple, place attachment and cultural field can influence cultural behaviors, and the environmental impact of industrial ecosystems causes path dependence in cultural resource exploration and cultural industry development. We further empirically tested the influence of cultural resources on cultural industries in different sub-regions of China and the transmission mechanism of the curse of cultural resources in western China. The results show that the influence of cultural resources on the cultural industries is not significant in the overall of China, but it is significantly negative in western China. The resource-dependent model of cultural industries development in western China has attracted more primary labor and crowded out government spending on education. Moreover, it hinders the upgrading of human resources and inhibits the modern innovative development of the cultural industries. This is an important reason for the curse of cultural resources in the development of cultural industries in western China.
资源诅咒理论表明，自然资源禀赋丰富的地区会积累不利的经济竞争力，但很少有研究关注文化资源诅咒的成因和机制。由于中国中西部一些文化资源丰富的地区文化产业发展相对滞后。结合文化资源理论和资源诅咒理论，我们构建了文化资源禀赋系数和文化资源诅咒系数，并基于2000 - 2019年中国29个省份的数据集测度了文化资源诅咒的分布情况。结果表明，中国西部地区存在严重的文化资源诅咒。文化资源诅咒的成因是多方面的，地方依恋和文化场域会影响文化行为，产业生态系统的环境影响导致文化资源开发和文化产业发展的路径依赖。我们进一步实证检验了文化资源对中国不同子区域文化产业的影响以及中国西部文化资源诅咒的传导机制。结果表明，文化资源对中国整体文化产业的影响不显著，但对中国西部文化产业的影响显著为负。中国西部文化产业发展的资源依赖模式吸引了更多的初级劳动力，挤出了政府在教育方面的支出。此外，它阻碍了人力资源升级，抑制了文化产业的现代创新发展。这是中国西部文化产业发展中文化资源诅咒的一个重要原因。
