英文摘要 | Abstract
The integration of technology and finance, serving as a pivotal driver of productivity and modern economy, exerts a profound impact on guiding capital towards new technologies, fostering emerging industries, and creating new growth poles, thereby offering new opportunities for China's industrial structure transformation. Against the backdrop of the fourth industrial revolution led by the digital economy, the growth of emerging industries determines China's international competitiveness, with industrial structure optimization becoming a key metric for gauging the economic gap with developed countries. To promote the integration of technology and finance, the Chinese government has implemented a series of policies, such as the "Pilot Implementation Plan for Promoting the Integration of Science and Technology and Finance" in 2012 and the subsequent selection of pilot regions. This study, taking 2012 as the research cutoff point, employs the difference-in-differences (DID) method to explore the impact and mechanisms of technology-finance integration policies on industrial structure optimization.
This study first comprehensively reviews the literature on the integration of science and technology with finance, as well as on industrial structure optimization, both domestically and internationally. Based on this review, the study proposes the influence mechanism of the pilot policy for integrating science and technology with finance on industrial structure optimization, further explores potential action mechanisms, and formulates corresponding hypotheses, thereby laying a theoretical foundation for subsequent empirical analysis. Subsequently, this study constructs a relevant evaluation indicator system. Given that the construction of new quality productivity indicators exhibits distinct era-specific characteristics, innovative exploration of measurement methods is required. Finally, using panel data from 265 prefecture-level cities in China from 2008 to 2021, this study employs a multi-time-point difference-in-differences model (DID) to empirically test the impact of the pilot policy for integrating science and technology with finance on the advancement and rationalization of industrial structure, and further analyzes the transmission mechanism through which this policy operates via new quality productivity and entrepreneurial activity.
The study arrives at the following conclusions: Firstly, the pilot policy significantly promotes the advancement of the industrial structure while exerting an inhibitory effect on its rationalization, with this effect exhibiting stability. Secondly, heterogeneity analysis reveals that the policy is more effective in third-tier cities, regions with higher levels of financial development, and environments with greater government attention. In terms of policy implementation batches, the second batch of cities outperforms the first; moreover, the policy effect is more pronounced in cities with lower human capital levels. Thirdly, mechanism analysis indicates that new-quality productivity and entrepreneurial activity are key mechanisms through which technology-finance integration policies influence industrial structure optimization. While the pilot policy enhances industrial structure advancement by boosting new-quality productivity and entrepreneurial activity, it also exacerbates irrationalization. Clearly, issues such as unbalanced resource allocation, biased policy orientation, suboptimal market environment, and significant regional and industrial disparities are primary factors affecting policy effectiveness. Accordingly, this study proposes targeted policy recommendations from four aspects: constructing a multi-tiered policy support system, deepening the construction of the technology-finance ecosystem, cultivating new-quality productivity, and building an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, aimed at contributing to the optimization of the industrial structure.
Keywords: Pilot Policy For The Integration Of Technology And Finance; Industrial Structure Upgrading; Industrial Structure Rationalization;New Quality Productivity |
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