Impact of technological progress on industrial structure upgrading based on spatial panel measurement model in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China

Abstract

Technological progress is the engine for a country’s long-term stable economic growth. Since China has put forward the development requirements of finding a new driving force for economic growth, optimizing industrial structure and improving the quality of economic development, technological progress has become the key object of economic research. Based on the spatial autoregression model, this paper constructs a spatial weight matrix from three perspectives: geographical distance, economic distance, and comprehensive economic geographical distance, and took 13 cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as the research objects to analyze the impact of technological progress on the upgrading of regional industrial structure and the spatial effect from 2010 to 2017. The results show that there is an inverted “U” relationship between the technological progress and the upgrading of industrial structure in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The empirical results indicate that technological progress can significantly promote the upgrading of industrial structure in the region, but has no significant impact on the upgrading of industrial structure in the surrounding areas.