Author(s)

Jianhong Chen, Xiangzhong Zhao and Meng Zhang

Corresponding Author

Jianhong Chen

ABSTRACT

Under the background of the construction of the digital Silk Road, the relationship between the level of digitalization and the industrial structure has attracted more and more attention. Based on the theoretical analysis of digitalization level, the relationship between high-tech industry opening to the outside world and industrial structure, this paper empirically examines the relationship between digitalization level, high-tech industry opening to the outside world and industrial structure optimization by using the panel data of 17 provinces in China from 2013 to 2017 and the intermediary effect method. The theoretical and empirical analysis shows that the improvement of digitalization level can enhance the opening-up level of high-tech industries by improving the international competitiveness of high-tech enterprises and products, and further promote the optimization of regional industrial structure, that is, the opening-up of high-tech industries affects the production of industrial structure in the process of digitalization level. Mediation effect was produced.

KEYWORDS

Industrial structure optimization, Digitization level, Opening to the outside world, High-tech industries, The mediation effect