Theoretical Mechanism and Experience Identification of State-level New Areas (SNA) Driving High-quality Development of Regional Economy [in Chinese]

Abstract: Can state-level new areas (SNA) effectively drive high-quality development of regional economy? Is there heterogeneity in its effect? What is the specific influence mechanism? Based on the quasi-natural experiment of the approval establishment of 17 SNAs in China, this paper explores the theoretical transmission mechanism of SNA driving high-quality development of regional economy, and uses the generalized synthetic control method (GSCM) to test its policy effect. The results show that: the SNAs have significantly driven the high-quality development of regional economy, and the SNAs established in the eastern of China, or with the central bureau level, or before 2013 have the more obvious policy effects. In the meanwhile, the SNAs have significant positive effect on the high- quality development of regional economy in the first year, and last at least 8 years of policy effectiveness. Instead of driving regional economic growth and upgrading of industrial structure, SNAs promote high-quality development of regional economy through two channels: optimization of employment structure and improvement of ecological environment.

  探讨国家级新区驱动区域经济高质量发展的理论机制，采用广义合成控制法评估其政策效应大小，运用多重中介效应模型对其作用机理展开实证检验。研究结果表明: 国家级新区总体显著地驱动了区域经济高质量发展，设立于东部地区、正厅局级以及 2013 年以前的国家级新区政策效应更加明显。国家级新区对区域经济高质量发展的驱动效应不存在时滞性，且通常拥有 8 年的政策时效性。中介效应分析进一步表明，相较于带动地区经济增长和产业结构升级，国家级新区主要通过就业结构优化和生态环境改善驱动区域经济高质量发展。可见，在后续国家级新区批复设立和推进过程中，一方面，需要给予中西部地区更多的关注和引导; 另一方面，需要注重发挥生态文明建设的重要推动作用，最终实现中国区域均衡协调和高质量发展。

基金项目

• 国家社会科学基金重大项目“新时代绿色发展绩效评估与美丽中国建设道路研究”(18ZDA047)

• 国家社会科学基金重点项目“中国坚持绿色发展的技术路线、区域实现及政策工具选择”(2015AZD070)

• 全国“四个一批”人才项目(中宣干字〔2016〕49号)

作者简介

• 郑维伟(1997—)，男，重庆人，硕士研究生，研究方向：区域经济，生态经济。

• 刘耀彬(1970—)，男，湖北麻城人，教育部“长江学者”特聘教授，博士生导师，南昌大学副校长，南昌大学中国中部经济社会发展研究中心主任，研究方向：城市经济，生态经济（通讯作者）。