Abstract Based on government procurement contract information and patent application databases, this study employs text analysis and patent co-classification analysis to measure the scale of government digital procurement and the development level of digital-real economy integration across 285 cities from 2006 to 2021, investigating the impact of government digital procurement on such integration and its underlying mechanisms. The results indicate that, through the “ nest-building ” effect of promoting digital infrastructure construction and the “ phoenix-attracting ” effect of accelerating the cultivation of digital market entities, government digital procurement has significantly advanced the development of digital-real economy integration. This impact exhibits heterogeneity depending on the type of procurement and city characteristics. Local procurement demonstrates a stronger promoting effect on digital-real economy integration, while the policy effect is more pronounced in cities with high government digital attention, well-developed institutional environments and comparative industrial advantages. Economic consequence tests reveal that the promoting effect of government digital procurement on digital-real integration can facilitate the development of new quality productive forces. The research conclusions not only help compensate for the shortcomings of demand-side research in the digital-real integration policy system, but also provide theoretical basis and practical reference for maximizing the policy effects of government digital procurement.
WANG Hengxu,YUAN Xiaoling,ZHAO Kai. Research on the Impact of Government Digital Procurement on the Development of Urban Digital-Real Economy Integration. Economic Survey, 2026, 43(1): 0104.
2026, Vol. 43 
