Research on the Impact of Digital Economy on Manufacturing Total Factor Productivity

This paper empirically tests the impact mechanism of digital economy development on manufacturing total factor productivity, using data from Chinese enterprises 2011 to 2020, and based theoretical framework productivity. The has been found have a significant positive productivity industry. heterogeneity effect demonstrates that in coastal areas improvement with eastern area having strongest effect; Yellow River’s middle reaches, Yangtze southwest also effect, region being more significant; northwest northeast no effect. Possible reasons include larger bottlenecks western region’s labor force structure, technology level, management capabilities, which may lead inability effectively absorb dividends change apply scenarios, thus affecting release their effects.