城市空间优化与经济高质量发展——基于区界重组的经验证据

Urban Spatial Optimization and High-quality Economic Development: Empirical Evidence Based on District Boundary Reorganization

《财经研究》2023年49卷第8期 页码：4 - 18 online：2023年8月3日

作者

中：吉黎1 , 张婉莹1 , 孙三百2

英：Ji Li1, Zhang Wanying1, Sun Sanbai2

作者单位：1. 上海理工大学 管理学院，上海 200093; 2. 中国人民大学 应用经济学院，北京 100872

摘要及关键词

摘要：作为优化城市空间结构和提升城市竞争力的重要手段，区界重组的调整能否促进城市经济高质量发展？文章以2010—2019年地级市面板数据为基础，采用多期双重差分法，识别了区界重组改革对城市经济高质量发展的影响效应。结果表明，区界重组改革能够显著提高城市经济高质量发展水平，区界重组改革强度越大，城市经济发展质量的提升程度越高。分样本来看，市辖区合并和街道调整这两种区界重组类型对经济发展质量具有显著的提升作用，区界重组政策在经济发达城市和有行政区划调整经验的城市中作用效果更加明显。从影响机制来看，区界重组主要通过提高土地资源利用效率、政府行政管理效能和经济集聚程度，提升了资源配置效率，从而促进了城市经济高质量发展。文章的研究不仅有助于理解区界重组与经济高质量发展之间的逻辑链条，还为下一阶段运用行政区划工具来推动我国经济高质量发展提供了经验证据。

关键词：行政区划调整；区界重组；经济高质量发展；空间优化

Summary: At present, China’s economy is in a critical period of transformation. As an important means of optimizing urban spatial structure and enhancing urban competitiveness, the issue of whether district boundary reorganization can promote the high-quality development of urban economy has attracted much attention. Based on the panel data of prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2019, this paper uses a multi-period DID method to identify the impact of district boundary reorganization on the high-quality development of urban economy. The results show that: (1) District boundary reorganization significantly improves the high-quality development level of urban economy, especially for samples with higher intensity of district boundary reorganization. (2) From the sample perspective, city mergers and street reorganization have a significant impact on the quality of economic development, and the impact of district boundary reorganization is greater in economically developed cities and in samples with administrative reorganization experience. (3) District boundary reorganization improves resource allocation efficiency by improving land resource utilization efficiency, enhancing government administration efficiency and increasing economic agglomeration, thereby promoting the high-quality development of urban economy. The findings not only help to understand the logical chain between district boundary reorganization and high-quality economic development, but also provide empirical evidence for using administrative division tools to promote the development of China’s economy in the next stage. The marginal contributions are as follows: First, the existing literature does not pay enough attention to district boundary reorganization, while this paper presents an empirical study of the policy effect of boundary reorganization from the perspective of the high-quality development of urban economy, providing a theoretical basis for subsequent analysis. Second, this paper discusses the heterogeneous effects of boundary reorganization intensity, different types of boundary reorganization, different levels of economic development, and cities with or without administrative experience in terms of policy effectiveness, which has not been found in any previous research on boundary reorganization, providing a more comprehensive picture of the impact of boundary reorganization. Third, this paper empirically examines the mechanism by which boundary reorganization affects the high-quality development of urban economy in terms of improving land resource utilization efficiency, enhancing government administration efficiency and increasing economic agglomeration, providing empirical evidence for further clarifying the impact of boundary reorganization on high-quality economic development.

Key words: administrative division adjustment; district boundary reorganization; high-quality economic development; spatial optimization

其他信息

DOI：10.16538/j.cnki.jfe.20230517.401

收稿日期：2023-02-10

基金项目： 国家社会科学基金项目（18CJL022）

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