Research on the Digital Economy Boosting the High-Quality Development of Manufacturing in Underdeveloped Areas—Taking Kaifeng City as an Example

Abstract

This paper measures and empirically analyzes the effect of digital economy on the high quality development of manufacturing industry in Kaifeng City from the significance and problems of digital economy on the high quality development of manufacturing industry by using Super-SBM model, principal component analysis method and Tobit model. The results show that: 1) From 2012 to 2020, the manufacturing industry in Kaifeng City, except for the negative growth of electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, the overall and its sub-sectors are growing in fluctuation and fluctuation. 2) The digital economy of Kaifeng City is in a period of rapid development from 2012 to 2020, leapfrogging from the low level stage in 2012 to the medium level stage in 2020. 3) The digital economy can significantly contribute to the high-quality development of manufacturing, but the strength of the boosting effect is not large. 4) Under different factor intensity, there is industry heterogeneity in the digital economy on the high-quality development of manufacturing industry, and the magnitude of its influence is capital-intensive manufacturing > labor-intensive manufacturing > technology-intensive manufacturing in order. Finally, we propose the path and countermeasures for the digital economy to promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in less developed regions.