热带地理 ›› 2023, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 681-694.doi: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003664

• 数字经济与空间相互作用机制 • 上一篇    下一篇

智慧城市建设是否促进了新型城镇化与市场一体化:鱼和熊掌不可兼得?

张晖(), 张涵月, 李仁君   

  1. 海南大学 经济学院,海南 海口 570228
  • 收稿日期:2022-10-17 修回日期:2023-02-06 出版日期:2023-04-05 发布日期:2023-05-08
  • 作者简介:张晖(1980—),男,湖北武汉人,副教授,博士,主要研究方向为区域经济学,(E-mail)zhanghui201@126.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金重大项目《深化‘放管服’改革与发展软环境研究》(19ZDA110);国家自然科学基金地区项目《异质产业链空间离散化、地区差距变动及地方政府产业转移策略研究》(718630056)

Does Smart City Construction Promote New Urbanization and Market Integration: Can We Have Both?

Hui Zhang(), Hanyue Zhang, Renjun Li   

  1. School of Economics, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
  • Received:2022-10-17 Revised:2023-02-06 Online:2023-04-05 Published:2023-05-08

摘要:

智慧城市建设会对城市发展和区域格局产生深刻影响,有必要探究其对新型城镇化与区域市场一体化的影响效应,为加快推进智慧城市建设提供经验证据。基于2005—2019年238个地级及以上城市面板数据,将国家智慧城市试点的设立视为一项准自然实验,运用双重差分法分析智慧城市建设对市场一体化的影响。研究发现:1)智慧城市建设虽能推动试点城市新型城镇化,却不利于城市间市场一体化;智慧城市建设加剧市场分割的特性在一系列稳健性检验后依然成立。2)异质性分析表明,智慧城市建设对市场一体化的抑制作用,主要体现在低行政级别城市、中小城市和内陆城市范围内;在大城市和沿海城市,智慧城市建设对市场一体化具有促进作用。3)作用机制表明,缩小信息基础设施差距和公共支出差距,积极发展第二产业,既能发挥智慧城市建设对新型城镇化的积极作用,又能减弱对市场一体化的负面影响。

关键词: 智慧城市建设, 新型城镇化, 市场一体化, 双重差分法, 中国

Abstract:

Smart city construction will have a profound impact on urban development and regional pattern, and it is necessary to explore its impact on new urbanization and regional market integration, so as to provide empirical evidence for accelerating the construction of smart cities. Based on the panel data of 238 prefecture-level cities from 2005 to 2019, this study considers the establishment of the national smart city pilot as a quasi-natural experiment and includes it in the analysis of the factors influencing market integration. The multi-period difference method was used to empirically investigate the influence of smart city pilot construction on market integration at the prefecture-level city level. The conclusions are as follows. According to the calculation results, the degree of inter-city market segmentation in the whole sample period from 2005 to 2019 showed a trend of shock decline, except that the degree of inter-city market segmentation increased in 2008 and 2009. The benchmark regression results show that although smart city pilot construction can promote economic urbanization, social urbanization, and environmental urbanization of the pilot cities, it is not conducive to market integration among cities. The conclusion that smart city construction will intensify market segmentation remains valid even after a series of robustness tests. The influence of smart city construction on inter-city market integration varies according to city level, city size, and city location, which is mainly manifested in the fact that it significantly inhibits the market integration of low-level cities, small and medium-sized cities, and inland cities, and significantly promotes the market integration of big cities and coastal cities. The influence mechanism shows that narrowing the information infrastructure gap not only helps in playing the role of smart city construction in promoting the development of new urbanization but also promotes market integration among cities. Narrowing the gap in public expenditure is conducive to the promotion of smart city construction for social urbanization and alleviates market segmentation among cities. Promoting the development of secondary industries can enhance environmental urbanization and ease market segmentation. Therefore, in the context of building a national unified large market, the pilot construction of smart cities should pay full attention to the negative effects of the "digital divide" between regions, encourage some localities with conditions to strengthen the construction of smart cities independently, and prevent the "digital divide" between regions from widening. This study further enriches the research on the factors influencing market integration at the city level and simultaneously provides some references for urban digital transformation and the development of new urbanization.

Key words: smart city construction, new urbanization, market integration, double difference method, China

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  • F127