Digital Infrastructure Construction and Chinese Agricultural and Rural Modernization: Based on the Mediating Effect of Rural Industrial Diversification Developmentand Digital Literacy
Digital Infrastructure Construction and Chinese Agricultural and Rural Modernization: Based on the Mediating Effect of Rural Industrial Diversification Developmentand Digital Literacy
LIANG Jian
School of Public Administration, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, Lanzhou 730101, China
Abstract Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2022, this paper analyzes the impact of digital infrastructure construction on Chinese agricultural and rural modernization. The result shows that digital infrastructure construction can significantly promote the development of Chinese agricultural and rural modernization, which is still true after a series of robustness tests and considering endogenous problems. Intermediary effect test shows that the diversified development of rural industries and the improvement of digital literacy play an intermediary role in the relationship between digital infrastructure construction and Chinese-style agricultural and rural modernization. The analysis of spatial spillover effect indicates that there is a significant positive spatial spillover effect of digital infrastructure construction on the development of Chinese agricultural and rural modernization. The results of the regional heterogeneity test manifest that the impact of digital infrastructure on the development of Chinese-style agricultural and rural modernization presents a heterogeneous characteristic of “ eastern>central>northeastern>western ”, “ high-level marketization areas>low-level marketization areas ”, and “ high-level digital infrastructure construction>low-level digital infrastructure construction ”. On this basis, the paper puts forward some policy suggestions that we should speed up the construction of digital infrastructure, build the development model of intelligent agricultural industry, and cultivate high-quality digital farmers.
LIANG Jian. Digital Infrastructure Construction and Chinese Agricultural and Rural Modernization: Based on the Mediating Effect of Rural Industrial Diversification Developmentand Digital Literacy. Economic Survey, 2024, 41(3): 028.
2024, Vol. 41 
