关键词: 数字政府, 产业结构, 电子政务, 资源配置, 大众创业

Abstract: The local governments play an important role in industrial structure upgrading. The digital government is a core link in achieving modernization of national governance system and governance capacity. How to empower the industrial structure upgrading is an important research issue in the era of digital economy. This paper utilizes the comprehensive e-government pilot policy launched in 2018 as a quasi-natural experiment to measure the digital government, and employs the DID model to empirically analyze the impact of the digital government on the industrial structure upgrading and its underlying mechanisms. The empirical results indicate that the implementation of e-government pilot policies significantly promotes the rationalization and advancement of the industrial structure. Moreover, this conclusion remains valid after a series of robust checks, PSM-DID estimation, and identification tests. Heterogeneity analyses show that the impact of e-government pilot on coastal areas is higher than that on inland areas, and the impact on urban agglomeration areas is higher than that on non-urban agglomeration areas. The mechanism analysis, based on the transmission effect model, demonstrates that the e-government pilot enhances the rationalization of the industrial structure by improving resource allocation efficiency and promotes the advancement of the industrial structure by encouraging public entrepreneurship. Therefore, it is necessary to expedite the government's digital transformation and governance structure reform by leveraging the innovative diffusion effects of e-government pilot policies. This will serve as a driving force to propel the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, guided by digital governance.

Key words: Digital Government, Industrial Structure, E-government, Resource Allocation, Entrepreneurship