Rural Digital Economy And Common Prosperity Of Farmers And Rural Areas

In the latter half of the 20 th century,with the utilization and popularity of computers,microprocessors and mobile phones,the Internet,search engines and digital platforms became the core technologies to promote the development of the society.The comprehensive changes brought about by digital computing and communication technologies marks the gradual entry of mankind from the agricultural and industrial eras into the information age driven by the digital revolution.Digital technologies,represented by 5G,the Internet of Things and cloud computing,have been integrated into all aspects of industrial development.Digital technologies and services realize the development of agricultural databases,the whole process of agricultural production from seedling and cultivation management to intelligent sorting,to improve the efficiency of agricultural production and enhance the value chain of agricultural products.Modern digital information technology is gradually integrating with farmers’ lives,giving new power to agricultural production and empowering high-quality development to rural area.The development of a rural digital economy enhances the endogenous power of farmers’ rural development and becomes a strategic choice to achieve the goal of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.Promoting the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is an important content to solidly facilitate common prosperity.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “at present,the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development in China is still prominent,and the gap between urban and rural regional development and income distribution is large;the most difficult and onerous task of promoting common prosperity is still in the rural areas”.Making the villagers constantly increase the obtaining sense and the happiness sense on the road of common prosperity is the elementary requirement of socialism.As a new economic form,the digital economy plays a key role in stimulating the endogenous development momentum of the countryside,tapping the potential of green development,promoting the transformation and upgrading of rural industries,and enhancing the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.The development of the rural digital economy is of great strategic significance in promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas,contributing to the comprehensive rejuvenation of the countryside,promoting common prosperity and solving the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development.By figuring our the relevant domestic and international literature on common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy,this thesis finds that the agriculture rural modernization research triggered by digital technology is affluent,but there has not been a consensus on the mechanism of rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.How to measure the level of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas? What is the current level of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in various regions of China? How does the rural digital economy promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in China? In order to solve the above realistic problems and analyse the connection between rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,this thesis puts forward the following research questions:(1)What are the connotations of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy in China? What is the current development status?(2)What is the theoretical logic between the rural digital economy and the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas?(3)What is the impact of the rural digital economy towards the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas? What are the impact mechanisms?This thesis evaluates the current situation of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy by constructing an evaluation index system,describes the overall process and regional differences of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,analyses the relationship between rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas through empirical methods,and has an in-depth analysis of the impact path of rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.The overall structure of the thesis is divided into six parts as follows.First,sort out the theoretical framework of the rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.Based on the reasons and history of the development of the rural digital economy,this thesis deduces the promotion function of rural digital economy towards the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from four aspects of high-quality development of farmers and villages,rational distribution,equalization of basic public services and spiritual culture.Secondly,systematically elaborate the connotation of rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,and establish an evaluation index system according to this.By deeply understanding the scientific connotation of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy,and clarifying the direction of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy,this thesis constructs an evaluation index system for common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy based on existing research results and national policy guidelines.Thirdly,based on the measurement results of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and rural digital economy,to evaluate the status quo of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.Based on data from the Rural Statistical Yearbook and the National Bureau of Statistics,this thesis integrates the entropy value method and the principal component analysis method to measure the current situation of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in 30 provinces in China,and uses the entropy-weighted Topsis method to evaluate the current situation of the rural digital economy.On the basis of the evaluation results of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,this thesis uses the Thayer index to analyse the overall process and regional differences of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,applies the natural breakpoint method to comprehensively evaluate the level of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in China’s seven economic regions in 2020,and uses the spatial econometric analysis method to explore the spatial effects of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in China’s seven economic regions.Fourthly,the impact of the rural digital economy on the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is empirically tested.This thesis constructs benchmark regression and heterogeneity analysis to study the relationship between rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,provides an in-depth analysis of the results in terms of regional differences,and explores whether the extension of agricultural industry chain,farmers’ employment and entrepreneurship,agricultural development efficiency and diversification of agricultural structure can significantly play a mediating role in the rejuvenation of rural industries,and whether innovation dynamics and the degree of ageing will affect the relationship between rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.Fifth,it summarizes the practices of Zhejiang in promoting the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and the experience of foreign countries in the digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas.As a demonstration area of common prosperity in Zhejiang,this thesis systematically summarizes Zhejiang’s practice of promoting common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in terms of why it was chosen,how it was developed,and the effectiveness and experience of its development to summarize the practice of Zhejiang to promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.At the same time,it summarizes the experiences of the United States,Germany,Japan and other countries in promoting the digitalisation of agriculture and rural areas to provide references for the development of China’s rural digital economy.The main research summaries of this thesis are as follows:Firstly,it can be known from the analysis of the theoretical level that the rural digital economy promotes the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from four aspects:high-quality development of farmers’ rural areas,reasonable distribution,equalization of basic public services and spiritual culture.The rural industry structure optimization,helping with the consumption structure upgrading of agriculture product,empowering the rural construction to promote the high-quality development of farmers and rural areas,and facilitate the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from two aspects of offering side and demand side.The digital economy in the countryside enhances the primary income distribution of farmers,regulates the secondary income distribution of the government and facilitates the tertiary income distribution of the society,so as to enhance the reasonable distribution of farmers and the countryside and facilitate the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.The digital economy in the countryside breaks the limitations of time and distance,provides farmers with better public services such as education and medical care,and realizes the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas;the digital economy in the countryside realizes the diversification of cultural communication,enhances the cultural communication and influence on farmers and rural areas,and promotes the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.Secondly,the understanding of the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in this thesis includes two subjects,namely,“farmers” and “rural areas”,and two aspects of“prosperity” and “common”.The common prosperity of farmers and rural areas requires relying on the rejuvenation of the countryside to achieve sustainable and stable income growth for farmers;narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas to achieve a balanced standard of living standard between urban and rural areas;narrowing the gap within rural areas to achieve coordinated development between rural areas;and stimulating the internal motivation of farmers to achieve wealth through hard work and innovation.Common prosperity is a universal and differentiated prosperity,covering various aspects of economic,political,social,cultural and ecological civilization.According to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s thought on common prosperity,this thesis constructs an index system for common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from four first-level indicators: high-quality development of farmers’ rural areas,reasonable distribution of farmers’ rural areas,equalization of basic rural public services for farmers,and spiritual culture of farmers’ rural areas.Thirdly,it can be known from the measurement of the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas that the overall level of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in China has been increasing constantly,but there are certain differences in the degree of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas among provinces and cities,the eastern regions with developed economy are generally at a high level at present,but the western regions are on the contrary,and various dimensions show unbalanced characteristics of the development.The problem is more acute in the regions those are less developed;the level of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is shifting from inter-regional imbalance to inter-regional imbalance;the types of balanced development of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas include five categories: balanced,well balanced,moderately balanced,mildly unbalanced and seriously unbalanced,and there are obvious spatial divergences.Most of the provinces in the seven economic regions show obvious positive spatial auto-correlation characteristics,and there is a significant spatial spillover effect on the level of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in different provinces.Fourthly,the empirical test of rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas shows that the regression coefficient of rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is significantly positive at the 1% level,and there is a U-shaped relationship between the two.The development of the rural digital economy can effectively enhance the extension of industry chains and agricultural development effects,and has a positive impact on farmers’ employment and entrepreneurship before the threshold value of 0.474,and the impact is significant at the 1% level.Innovation vitality can promote the development of rural digital economy to promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,while the impact of the degree of aging on rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is negatively correlated.Fifthly,the practical experience of promoting rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in Zhejiang Province shows that Zhejiang attaches importance to stimulating endogenous dynamics,inclusive and shared development,and establishing long-term mechanisms to effectively broaden farmers’ income adding channels,improve their quality of life,and promote common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.As can be seen from the results of other countries in promoting the digital transformation of agriculture,and realizing the basic condition for the digitalisation of the countryside,the basic conditions of realizing countryside digitalisation is the construction of infrastructure and the service ability of network communications.The use of technologies such as the Internet of Things in agriculture,intelligent robots and big data platforms in the agricultural industry chain is the main way and development trend to realize the digital transformation of the agricultural industry.The primary goal of current rural development in various countries is to help farmers learn how to use digital technologies,accelerate the universalisation and sharing of digital dividends,and promote efficient development of agricultural production.Concerning the research perspective,theoretical analysis framework and research results,this thesis has certain innovations of them as follows:Firstly,as for the theoretical analysis framework,this thesis realizes the scientific connotation of the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and the construction innovation of the evaluation index system.This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of the meaning of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas and systematically constructs an evaluation index system,which provides a support for evaluating the process of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.As one of the core tasks of common prosperity,promoting common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is faced with such realistic difficulties as insufficient endogenous growth momentum in rural areas,low level of integrated development level of one,two,three industries,and shortcomings in livelihood protection,etc.Scholars have continuously explored the path of promoting common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,but promoting common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is an evolving issue,and scholars’ Theoretical research on the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in the new stage of the digital economy is still at a preliminary stage.In view of the current studies which is lack of evaluation of the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,this thesis respectively elaborates the understanding of the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from two subjects: “farmers” and “rural areas”,and two perspectives of “common” and “prosperity”.It also constructs an evaluation system for the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from four aspects: high-quality development of farmers and rural areas,reasonable distribution of farmers and rural areas,equalization of basic rural public services and spiritual culture of farmers and rural areas,and has measured them,which is conducive to understanding and grasping the overall process and regional status of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in China.Secondly,this thesis analyses the impact on the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas from the perspective of the rural digital economy,and achieves a certain degree of innovation from the perspective of the research.With the rapid development of the economy,the problem of unfair distribution has become more and more prominent,and the gap between income and the level of public services in urban and rural areas has become larger.In order to cross the “middle-income trap” and promote the double cycle,the national economic development strategy has transformed from the theory of the first rich to the theory of the common wealth,and from a development strategy that focuses on efficiency first to a development strategy that pays more attention to equality.Most of the existing studies only carry out the research of the status quo of the development of rural digital economy and how to facilitate rural digital economy at the theoretical level,and the research of how the rural digital economy facilitate the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is still in a blank space.This thesis empirically analyses the impact and the impact route of the rural digital economy on the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,which has realistic guiding significance towards the realization of the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.Finally,as far as the research conclusion is concerned,the empirical findings of this thesis on the rural digital economy and common prosperity of farmers and rural areas are relatively innovative.From emperical test,the thesis concludes that there is a U-shaped relationship between the rural digital economy and the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.The rural digital economy promotes the development of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas by influencing the extension of the agricultural industry chain,the employment and entrepreneurship of farmers,the efficiency of agricultural development and the diversification of the agricultural structure.However,when formulating the policies,it is necessary to combine the different development stages of the rural digital economy and the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas to provide targeted guidance for rural industrial development.Therefore,from the theoretical and empirical perspectives,this thesis starts with macro and micro layers,provides a support for understanding the development status quo of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in China,to better understand the importance of China’s rural digital economy in promoting common prosperity of farmers rural areas,and to provide theoretical guidance for the realization of common prosperity of farmers and rural areas,and the research has certain theoretical value and practical significance.