Rural E-commerce and County Economic Development in China

作     者：Qiuxia Qin Hongdong Guo Xinjie Shi Kevin Chen Qiuxia Qin;Hongdong Guo;Xinjie Shi;Kevin Chen

作者机构：China Academy for Rural DevelopmentSchool of Public AffairsZhejiang UniversityChina China Academy for Rural DevelopmentSchool of Public AffairsChina and Research Center for Common ProsperityFuture Regional Development LaboratoryInnovation Center of Yangtze River DeltaZhejiang UniversityChina China Academy for Rural DevelopmentSchool of Public AffairsZhejiang UniversityChina and International Food Policy Research InstituteEast and Central Asia OfficeChina 

出 版 物：《China & World Economy》 (中国与世界经济(英文版))

年 卷 期：2023年第31卷第5期

页      面：26-60页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 02[经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 020105[经济学-世界经济] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.72003170) the National Social Science Fund of China(No.21&ZD091) the Major Project of the Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education(No.22JJD790077) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China 

主　　题：county economy e-commerce quasi-natural experiment rural China 

摘      要：With the proliferation of information and communication technology in rural areas,rural e-commerce has gradually become a new economic phenomenon in China. Usingthe national rural e-commerce comprehensive demonstration policy as a quasi-naturalexperiment, this study examines the causal linkage between rural e-commerce andcounty-level economic development in China. Its findings, which draw on county-levelpanel data from 2011 to 2018, indicate that the policy had a positive effect on the countyleveleconomy in China, resulting in an overall increase in county GDP by 3.5 percent(0.7 percent annually). Our analysis further shows that the impact of the policy diferedalong the region and human capital dimensions. Further analysis reveals that industrialstructure and nonagricultural employment were the main channels for the policy toexert a county-level economic impact. Infrastructure improvement in China also playsan important role. The findings emphasize the importance of advancing e-commerce inrural areas to stimulate county-level economic development.