Wang Lianghu, Shao Jun
School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189 China.
J Knowl Econ. 2023 Mar 14:1-27. doi: 10.1007/s13132-023-01356-z.
Digitalization plays a pivotal role in enhancing manufacturing quality development and upgradation, helping translate transformation goals. The available literature has explored the impact of high-quality development in manufacturing, but the impact of digitalization and the underlying mechanism still needs to be systematically studied. This study aims to verify the impact of digitalization on the high-quality development of manufacturing employing dynamic panel data and a quantile regression model on China's provincial panel data between 2011 and 2020. The results indicated that high-quality manufacturing development showed a fluctuating rising trend with insignificant regional differences, with no apparent trend with a significant difference in the eastern region compared to the central and western regions. The nonlinear effect analysis results revealed that digitalization significantly promoted high-quality development in manufacturing with a more prominent effect at 50% quantile. Digitalization showed significant and heterogenous results in eastern region data compared to other regions, cementing the importance of digitalization in high-quality manufacturing development. This research also empirically enriches the discussion on the relationship between digitalization and the high-quality manufacturing development of industries providing meaningful insight into policy implications for improving the high-quality level of the manufacturing industry and achieving sustainable economic development.
数字化在提升制造业质量发展与升级方面发挥着关键作用，有助于实现转型目标。现有文献探讨了制造业高质量发展的影响，但数字化的影响及其潜在机制仍需系统研究。本研究旨在运用动态面板数据和分位数回归模型，对2011年至2020年中国省级面板数据验证数字化对制造业高质量发展的影响。结果表明，制造业高质量发展呈波动上升趋势，区域差异不显著，东部地区与中部和西部地区相比无明显趋势差异。非线性效应分析结果显示，数字化显著促进了制造业的高质量发展，在50%分位数处效果更为突出。与其他地区相比，数字化在东部地区数据中显示出显著且异质的结果，巩固了数字化在制造业高质量发展中的重要性。本研究还从实证上丰富了关于数字化与制造业高质量发展关系的讨论，为提高制造业高质量水平和实现可持续经济发展的政策含义提供了有意义的见解。
