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- Title
How Resource-Exhausted Cities Get Out of the Innovation Bottom? Evidence from China.
- Authors
Hu, Zihan; Wu, Min; Yang, Dan; Luo, Tao; Tian, Yihao
- Abstract
The transformation and upgrading of resource-exhausted cities are crucial for regional sustainable development, but how to help them overcome innovation challenges remains to be explored. Based on data from 2003 to 2016, this study used a difference-in-differences (DID) method to examine the impact of China's support policy for resource-exhausted cities on urban innovation and tests for long-term mechanisms. The results indicate that the support policy significantly enhanced regional innovation levels. The mechanism tests showed that these policies promoted urban innovation through long-term mechanisms of increasing marketization and upgrading industrial structures. Further analysis revealed that the innovation-promoting effects of the policies were more significant in resource-exhausted cities located in the eastern region, those not dependent on coal, those with a low reliance on extractive industries, and those with a favorable talent environment. The findings suggest that the government should provide policy support to achieve the transformation, upgrading, and sustainable development of resource-exhausted cities through urban innovation.
- Subjects
CHINA; SUSTAINABLE urban development; REGIONAL development; CITIES &; towns; SUSTAINABLE development; URBAN policy
- Publication
Land (2012), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 8, p1153
- ISSN
2073-445X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/land13081153