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Optimization Strategy of Digital Economy to Promote the Efficiency of Rural-Urban Integration Based on Big Data Analysis

  
Sep 26, 2025

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Figure 1.

The average Malmquist index in Guangdong province in 2017-2023
The average Malmquist index in Guangdong province in 2017-2023

Figure 2.

The average TFPCH changes in Qingyuan and Guangdong province
The average TFPCH changes in Qingyuan and Guangdong province

The mediation effect of the factor configuration efficiency is tested

Variable Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Digital economic development 0.05792*** 0.11043*** 0.05206***
Factor configuration efficiency 0.05918***
Control variable Yes Yes Yes
Provincial fixation effect Yes Yes Yes
Year fixed effect Yes Yes Yes
N 350 350 350
R2 0.85261 0.60277 0.86755

The average Malmquist index in Guangdong province in 2017-2023 year

Year Effch Techch Pech Sech Tfpch Tfpch sort
2017-2018 0.9955 2.9426 1.0024 0.9975 2.9319 1
2018-2019 1.0041 0.9426 0.9983 1.0069 0.9446 5
2019-2020 0.8847 1.5478 1.0004 0.8836 1.3708 2
2020-2021 1.0795 0.5428 0.9962 1.083 0.5845 6
2021-2022 1.0561 0.9556 1.0034 1.0528 1.0093 3
2022-2023 0.9996 1.0022 1.0012 1.0011 1.0014 4
Mean 1.0033 1.3223 1.0003 1.0042 1.3071

The average Malmquist index in the Qingyuan city in 2017-2023

Year Effch Techch Pech Sech Tfpch Tfpch sort
2017-2018 1.0098 3.4217 1.0012 1.0115 3.4518 1
2018-2019 1.0006 1.5492 0.9985 1.0005 1.5504 2
2019-2020 0.5457 0.8676 1 0.5446 0.4736 6
2020-2021 1.8353 0.55 0.9989 1.8363 1.0124 3
2021-2022 1.0008 0.9555 0.9972 1.0003 0.9546 4
2022-2023 0.9993 0.7329 0.9975 0.9986 0.7362 5
Mean 1.0653 1.3462 0.9989 1.0653 1.3632

The heterogeneity of urban and rural development of digital economy

Variable East Middle West
Digital economic development 0.12597*** -0.08943*** 0.06689***
Control variable Yes Yes Yes
Constant 0.1842 -0.27035 0.50986
Provincial fixation effect Yes Yes Yes
Year fixed effect Yes Yes Yes
N 130 120 100
R2 0.91013 0.80212 0.78006

The results of variable regression

Variable Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Digital economic development 0.05792*** 0.05206***
Factor configuration efficiency 0.09597*** 0.05918***
Urban and rural integration development level 0.03505*** 0.03816*** 0.03280***
Economic integration -0.00085 -0.00010 -0.00102
Industry digitization -0.00628 -0.02207 -0.00709
Digital industrialization 0.04494*** 0.06398*** 0.04501***
Constant -0.15904** -0.20022** -0.14399*
Provincial fixation effect Yes Yes Yes
Year fixed effect Yes Yes Yes
N 350 350 350
R2 0.85261 0.83024 0.86755

The average Malmquist index in Guangdong province in 2017-2023

City Effch Techch Pech Sech Tfpch Tfpch sort
Guangzhou 0.998 0.7487 0.9981 0.9987 0.7467 20
Zhuhai 1.0039 0.8709 0.9998 1.0071 0.8787 19
Shantou 1.0011 0.9381 0.9994 0.9999 0.9382 18
Foshan 1.0043 0.9764 1.0024 1.0035 0.9789 15
Shaoguan 1.0016 1.0129 0.9998 1.0015 1.0136 14
Heyuan 0.9984 0.9693 0.9993 1.0012 0.9734 17
Meizhou 0.9992 1.023 1.0011 1.0008 1.0256 13
Huizhou 1.0022 0.9754 1.0006 0.9977 0.9736 16
shantou 1.0006 1.3904 1.0011 1.0008 1.3905 5
Dongguan 1.0073 1.4423 1.005 1.0025 1.4524 1
Zhongshan 1.0025 1.4243 1.0007 1.0012 1.4287 4
Jiangmen 1.0055 1.4369 0.9971 1.0037 1.4417 3
Yangjiang 1 1.3829 1 0.9985 1.3849 6
Zhanjiang 1.002 1.2965 0.999 1.0006 1.2955 7
Maoming 1.0022 1.2613 1 0.9993 1.2632 8
Zhaoqing 0.9994 1.1845 0.9998 1.0011 1.1834 10
Qingyuan 1.0012 1.1017 1.0018 1.0001 1.1018 12
Chaozhou 0.9998 1.1555 1.0017 1.0015 1.1537 11
Jieyang 1.0019 1.2303 1.0022 1.0008 1.2321 9
Cloud float 1 1.4404 0.9992 0.9985 1.442 2
Mean 1.0016 1.1631 1.0004 1.0010 1.1649

Urban and rural integration input output index system

Overall index DEA coordinates Index dimension Index name
Urban and rural integrated development level measure system Input index Digital economic development Urban and rural industrial integration
Factor configuration efficiency Urban and rural social security coverage
Urban and rural integration development level Level of land urbanization
Digital economic development level measure system Output indicator Digital infrastructure Internet penetration
Industry digitization Digital financial development
Digital industrialization Telecommunications revenue
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