Transformation Mechanism and Regional Linkage Effects in China’s High-Quality Economic Development

Abstract

Investigating the regional linkage effects and their transformation mechanisms from the perspective of high-quality economic development aids in comprehending the overall patterns and linkage dynamics of regional economic development in the new era. This offers a crucial theoretical foundation for effectively regulating regional linkage effects to achieve coordinated regional economic advancement. By quantitatively identifying the regional linkage effects of high-quality economic development in China, this paper examines these effects and their transformation mechanisms through a framework encompassing four major regions. The findings reveal that China’s high-quality economic development level demonstrates significant regional economic characteristics, with radiation-driven effects already emerging between the eastern and central regions, as well as within the eastern and western regions. Factors such as population mobility, the establishment of special economic zones, and the reduction of green development gap all contribute to the shift in regional linkage effects from siphoning effects to radiating effects. To enable underdeveloped provincial-level regions across various regions to benefit more from radiation-driven effects, the central and northeast regions should prioritize internal regional dynamics; the western region should enhance population mobility and the role of growth poles in facilitating the transformation of linkage effects; while the eastern and central regions should focus on the constraining effects of green development gap on the transformation of regional linkage effects.

Keywords

high-quality economic development / regional economy / linkage effects / transformation mechanism

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