经济学院知识库

The Chinese economy has entered a stage of high-quality development, and the economic development model has shifted from quantitative to qualitative. Innovation has gradually become the main driving force for economic and social development.Human capital, as the source of innovation, plays an important leading role in high-quality economic development. Therefore, exploring the specific mechanisms by which human capital promotes high-quality economic development and how to promote coordinated economic development between the north and south provides more policy basis for achieving high-quality economic development and regional coordinated development.

First, based on the new development concept, the comprehensive index system of regional economic high-quality development is constructed, the entropy method is used to measure the level of regional economic high-quality development, and the current situation of regional economic high-quality development is analyzed. The results show:(1) China's high-quality economic development index has maintained a steady growth trend, among which, the high-quality economic development level of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other provinces maintain a rapid growth trend of cities, and the poor development, slow growth of Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou formed a sharp contrast.(2) From a regional perspective, the high-quality economic development level of the South is generally better than that of the North, and the economic gap between the north and the south is constantly expanding, and regional development is unbalanced. (3) The spatial difference of high-quality economic development in China is getting larger and larger, the number of provinces with high level of high-quality economic development is gradually increasing, and the gap with other provinces in the country is widening, and the phenomenon of polarization of high-quality economic development exists in the country.

Secondly, this paper discusses the mechanism of human capital affecting the high-quality development of regional economy through upgrading industrial structure,

improving labor productivity and promoting technological innovation. On this basis, the panel data from 2012 to 2021 are selected, and the fixed effect model and the intermediary effect model are established with industrial structure, labor productivity and technological innovation as the intermediary variables. Meanwhile, the adjustment effect model is constructed with urbanization level and commercial service supply as the moderating variables. To explore the moderating effect of urbanization level and commercial service supply on human capital's influence on the high-quality development of regional economy. The results show that: (1) On the whole, the intermediary effect is significant, that is, human capital can promote the high-quality economic development by promoting the upgrading of industrial structure, promoting technological innovation and improving labor productivity. First, the accumulation of human capital can promote the upgrading of industrial structure through the flow of labor into high value-added technology-intensive industries, and thus promote high-quality economic development. Secondly, human capital promotes knowledge agglomeration and spillover, develops new technologies, realizes technological innovation, and promotes economic development. Finally, high-quality human capital can greatly improve labor productivity and promote high-quality economic development by integrating with original production factors. (2) The sub-regional study finds that human capital has a significant positive effect on high-quality economic development between the north and the south, and the influence of human capital on high-quality economic development is greater in the south than in the north. The main reason is that the education investment in the southern region is higher than that in the northern region, the manufacturing industry tends to be high-end and sophisticated, and the business environment is superior. However, the human capital structure in the north is lower than that in the south, and many provinces are dominated by resource-based and heavy industry development, with a low proportion of private enterprises and insufficient market vitality. (3) Urbanization level and business service supply will strengthen the promoting effect of human capital on high-quality economic development. On the one hand, with the advancement of urbanization, labor resources are constantly reconfigured, which