The booming digital economy has provided opportunities for the deep coupling and coordination between manufacturing and producer services.With the development of digital economy,producer services gradually move to the front end of the industrial chain,and the interactive relationship between manufacturing and producer services begins to change from the dominance of manufacturing industry to the collaborative integration of the two industries,forming a strong coupling and coordinated development trend between the two industries.The 14 th Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of Gansu Province and the Outline of the Long-term Goals for 2035 propose to realize high-end and intelligent transformation of traditional industries,promote high-quality development of manufacturing industry,strengthen the extension of producer services to specialization and higher end of the value chain,consolidate and enhance the real economy’s foundation,and encourage the thorough fusion of the advanced manufacturing and service sectors.The key to achieve this goal is to make full use of digital economy to promote the deep coupling and coordination between manufacturing and producer services.Therefore,it is necessary to clarify the influence of digital economy on the coupling coordination between manufacturing and producer services in Gansu Province.Based on previous studies,this paper discusses the coupling coordination between manufacturing industry and producer services in Gansu province from the perspective of digital economy,which has very important practical guiding value for realizing the deep coupling coordination between manufacturing industry and producer services in Gansu province.First of all,relevant literature and theories are reviewed and summarized,and the mechanism of digital economy to improve the coupling coordination between manufacturing and producer services is expounded by reconstructing production factors,reducing costs and promoting innovation.Secondly,an evaluation index system was constructed to measure the comprehensive development level of digital economy,manufacturing and producer services in Gansu province by using the entropy method,and the coupling coordination degree of manufacturing and producer services in Gansu province was calculated based on the coupling coordination degree model,and combined with the actual development of manufacturing and producer services in Gansu province.The coupling and coordinated development of digital economy,manufacturing and producer services in Gansu Province is analyzed.Finally,the paper empirically tests whether the digital economy promotes the coupling coordination between manufacturing and producer services,and conducts heterogeneity analysis.The research results show that: first,from 2011 to 2020,the digital economy,manufacturing industry and producer service industry in Gansu Province gradually improved their own industrial development level.Second,the coupling coordination degree of manufacturing and producer services in Gansu province has moved to the stage of good coordination,and there is a wide gap between the coupling coordination degree of manufacturing and producer services in each city in Gansu province,with Lanzhou,the provincial capital,barely coordinating,and other cities discoordinating as the main characteristics.Third,the rapid development of digital economy in Gansu Province has significantly promoted the coupling coordination between manufacturing and producer services.However,the promotion effect varies with the economic development level of prefecture-level cities,and the promotion effect is more significant for cities with higher economic development level,whereas the effect is not obvious.Based on the conclusion,this paper draws inspiration: Gansu Province should improve the supporting system of industrial coupling and coordination,vigorously develop digital economy,strengthen the development of producer services,enhance technological innovation ability,and improve human capital,so as to better play the promoting effect of digital economy on the coupling and coordination of two industries. |