Research On The Impact Of Digital Economy On Export Trade Competitiveness

In recent years,due to the intensification of trade frictions,the prevalence of protectionism,the growth of unilateralism,and the volatile international situation,China’s export trade is facing enormous challenges.At the same time,the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology,Internet technology,and big data technology has led China to enter the era of digital economy.The digital economy itself has strong sustainable and relatively advanced characteristics,and when it develops,it can have a huge positive impact on the economy,social production and life and national progress.The digital economy has driven China’s economic growth with its unique economic form and sustainable development.The rapid development of the digital economy and its strong driving force for social development are crucial for promoting technological change,accelerating industrial structure upgrading,and promoting regional economic development.The development of the digital economy not only involves the digital industry,but also involves traditional enterprises.At the same time,it also provides more development opportunities for the development of traditional enterprises.The development of the digital economy has become a trend of the times.Seizing the development opportunities of the digital economy and improving export competitiveness are a key priority for improving China’s international status.The content of this thesis is mainly divided into four parts: the first part sorts out the relevant concepts and literature,expounds the connotation of digital economy and the research status of digital economy measurement,the research status of influencing factors of export trade competitiveness,and the relationship between export trade competitiveness and digital economy.The second part is the measurement of indicators and the construction of research models.Firstly,based on the development status of digital economy,three research dimensions of digital economy infrastructure construction,digital industry development competitiveness and digital innovation development competitiveness are determined,and the indicators of digital economy are measured on this basis.Secondly,the ECI index is innovatively selected as the indicator to measure the competitiveness of export trade,and then an empirical analysis model is constructed based on the above selected measurement indicators.The third part is an empirical study of the impact of digital economy development on export trade competitiveness.The correlation between the explanatory variables and the explanatory variables is verified by descriptive statistical analysis to obtain a macroscopic grasp of the relevant data,and then the correlation test is performed by the Pearson correlation test for related variables.The interaction between the excluded variables is excluded by multicollinearity test,and then the optimal model is selected according to the regression method of the panel data.Finally,based on the factor analysis method,the regression analysis is carried out through the explanatory variables and the explanatory variables,and the empirical results of the impact of digital economy development on the competitiveness of export trade are obtained,and the robustness test and heterogeneity analysis are carried out according to the obtained empirical results,and the reliability of the results and the differences of the empirical results in different regions are verified.The fourth part is the relevant conclusions based on the empirical results of the previous study,and then gives suggestions on China’s export trade according to the main conclusions of this thesis.The main findings of this paper are:(1)The development of digital economy is conducive to enhancing the competitiveness of China’s export trade.On the one hand,the development of the digital economy reduces the production cost of export products,and on the other hand,it reduces the transaction cost with export trading partners,thereby promoting the improvement of labor productivity and enhancing the competitiveness of export trade.(2)The degree of openness,per capita GDP,foreign direct investment and urbanization rate all have positive effects on the improvement of China’s export trade competitiveness.The improvement of trade openness is conducive to optimizing the allocation of resources to solve the problem of overproduction,promoting the optimization of industrial structure,promoting industrial upgrading,reducing the transaction costs of import and export enterprises,and improving the competitiveness of export trade.The higher the per capita GDP,the faster the regional economic development,and the higher the level of economic development of the region to the infrastructure construction is more comprehensive,the infrastructure system is more complete,which will not only accelerate the development of the regional economy,but also improve the level of foreign trade,making it more advantageous in foreign trade competition.Foreign direct investment can increase regional capital accumulation,expand production scale,improve production capacity,and expand production scale can promote export growth when the export ratio remains unchanged.The increase in urbanization rate helps to form industrial agglomeration,thereby reducing production costs,increasing business performance,and making it easier to establish a good customer reputation,which can enhance export competitiveness.(3)The digital economy in the eastern region has no significant impact on export competitiveness,while the digital economy in the central and western regions has a significant positive correlation with export competitiveness at a significant level of 1%.The innovation points of this paper are:(1)Domestic and foreign scholars have done a lot of research on the digital economy and export trade competitiveness,but few scholars have studied the impact of the digital economy on export trade competitiveness.(2)Measure export competitiveness at the regional level.Previous studies have mainly evaluated export competitiveness at the industry or product level.However,this article adds an ECI index to reflect the regional heterogeneity of export competitiveness.Regarding the relationship between the digital economy and export competitiveness,this article sets out from a regional perspective in the study,making the selection range of dependent variables and independent variables more consistent.(3)Finally,the hysteresis test of the empirical results is carried out,which can enhance the reliability and validity of the empirical results.