Abstract
In order to promote the coordinated development of the sports and pension industries, it is of great significance to apply the theory of industrial integration to the study of the interaction mechanism of the sports and pension industries, but there is a lack of research in this area at present. This paper firstly constructs the evaluation system of the coupling and coordination development of the sports and pension industries. Secondly, based on the panel data of 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in 2013–2017, this paper analyzes the coupling and coordination relationship between the sports and pension industries by using the entropy method and the coupling coordination model. Finally, the coupling coordination relationship between the two industries in the region in the next five years is predicted using the grey model (1.1), i.e. GM (1.1) model. The results show the following: (1) The development level of the two major industries in 11 provinces and cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is generally on the rise, and they have a high correlation. (2) The sports industry is more volatile than the pension industry, and the sports industry has become an effective path dependence to narrow the regional development differences. The sports industry has a weak driving role in the pension industry, while the pension industry has a greater role in promoting the sports industry. (3) There is a large spatial difference in the coupling coordination degree of the sports and pension industries in 11 provinces and cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, which will remain in the next five years, though the evolution and upgrading speed of the coupling coordination level will be significantly accelerated.
Highlights
With the intensification of the aging process of the Chinese population, the nineteen major reports of the Communist Party of China proposed that the strategy of a healthy China should be implemented to speed up the development of industry [1]
The principles of constructing the evaluation index system are as follows: (1) The evaluation index can reflect the connotation of the sports and pension industries, and fully reflect the development level and evolution law of the two industries; (2) The evaluation index can reflect the coupling relationship between the sports and pension industries; (3) The establishment of evaluation indexes should be able to reflect rich information with a simplified index system, eliminate redundancy and highlight key points; (4) The establishment of evaluation indicators should consider the availability of data, make the best use of existing statistical data, and consider the feasibility of accounting
The phenomenon in which the development of the sports and pension industries is the best in Jiangsu, while Guizhou is the last, is the same as the previous literature report by Wang [49]. He holds that the development of the sports industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai has obvious advantages, while the comprehensive scores of the pension industry in Jiangsu, Guangdong and Beijing are relatively high. This means that the sports and pension industries have a high correlation, that is to say, a high level of the pension industry can promote the development of the sports industry, while the long-term development of the regional sports industry will be restricted by the weak level of the pension industry
Summary
With the intensification of the aging process of the Chinese population, the nineteen major reports of the Communist Party of China proposed that the strategy of a healthy China should be implemented to speed up the development of industry [1]. In October 2014, China’s State Council issued several opinions on accelerating the development of the sports industry and promoting sports consumption, which proposed to actively expand business types, promote the integration of sports and pension services, enrich the content of the sports industry, and promote the integration of industry development [2]. In November 2015, the State Council issued the guiding opinions on accelerating the development of the life service industry and promoting the upgrading of the consumption structure, which proposed to encourage the integration and innovative development of pension services and related industries [3]. Under the background of the accelerated aging of the population and the transformation of the economic structure, the integration development of the sports and pension industries will become the inevitable trend of the development of the two industries
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