The Impact Of Digital Economy On Urban Export Competitiveness

Since the reform and opening up,with the continuous promotion of the reform of the foreign trade system,China has become a major country in international trade in goods,and foreign trade has also become the core driving force of China’s economic development.However,the development process of China’s manufacturing industry still faces the problems of insufficient level of independent innovation,"low-end locking" in the global value chain and high dependence on foreign technology.At the same time,facing the complex environment such as the intensification of international unilateral trade friction and the slowdown of the global economic situation,how to maintain the high-quality development of exports has become the key issue of China’s foreign trade exports.The emergence of the digital economy provides a realistic path.The digital economy is a more advanced and sustainable new economic form following the agricultural and industrial society.With its digital information and knowledge and interconnected information network,it has changed the mode of technological innovation and market demand structure,and has brought huge opportunities for the improvement of export competitiveness.It is the top priority to seize the digital opportunity and strive to improve China’s competitive power and position in the international market.This paper expounds and analyzes the development level of China’s urban digital economy and the development status of urban export competitiveness,as well as the changing relationship between the two real data.It also combs the role mechanism of the development level of the digital economy on the export competitiveness,introduces the time-fixed spatial Dubin model spatial econometric model to analyze the data of275 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2017,and explores the spatial relationship and the role mechanism of the impact of the digital economy on the level of urban export competitiveness.The research conclusions of this paper are as follows: First,digital economy can not only significantly improve the local export competitiveness,but also have a positive spatial spillover effect on neighboring regions,that is,it can improve the export competitiveness of neighboring regions.This significance is that after replacing the weight matrix,the explanatory variable lags for one period,and replacing the test model,it still maintains a robust result.From the perspective of subregions,the impact of digital economy on the level of export competitiveness shows obvious regional differences in terms of direction and significance.On this basis,this paper puts forward relevant policy recommendations to promote the quality of China’s export products from the aspects of strengthening infrastructure,encouraging technological innovation,and achieving balanced regional development,and provides suggestions for China to further improve its export competitiveness and take the initiative in international competition.