New Quality Productivity Forces and Local Digital Transformation

Based on panel data from county-level cities in China 2009-2020, it constructs a new system of indicators for the development of new quality productivity and empirically examines how the development of new quality productivity affects the level of local digital transformation. The results is conducive to provincial digital transformation, and this conclusion passes a series of robustness tests. The mechanism analysis is that the new quality productivity facilitates the digital transformation of the region by increasing the level of skilled human resources and the size of the market. New quality productivity also plays a more important role in facilitating digital transformation in the eastern regions and small cities. The conclusions of this paper provide an view of the new quality productivity and digital transformation in the region and provide suggestions for the development of a higher quality regional economy.