ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Does Digitalization Promote the Green
and High-Quality Development of Logistics
Industry in the Yellow River Basin of China?
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International Business School, Shaanxi Normal University, No.620 West Chang’an Street,
Chang’an District, Xi’an, 710119 China
Submission date: 2022-12-05
Final revision date: 2023-02-06
Acceptance date: 2023-02-21
Online publication date: 2023-04-18
Publication date: 2023-05-18
Corresponding author
Rui Luo
International Business School, Shaanxi Normal University, No.620 West Chang'an street, 710119, --请选择--, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(3):2749-2761
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ABSTRACT
The digital transformation is of great significance to green and high-quality development of logistics
industry (L-GHD). This paper analyzes the theoretical mechanism of digitalization affecting the
L-GHD. In the meantime, taking the urban data of China’s Yellow River Basin as an example, a fixed
effect model is established to empirically test the impact of digitalization on the L-GHD. The results
show that: (1) digitalization can significantly promote the L-GHD. (2) Digitalization indirectly promotes
the L-GHD through technological innovation input and output, optimized allocation of labor and
capital elements. (3) The heterogeneity test of city types shows that the impact of digitalization on the
L-GHD is more significant in non-resource-based cities. Urban location heterogeneity test shows that
digitalization has a more significant impact on L-GHD in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow
River Basin. Finally, it puts forward suggestions to accelerate the healthy development of digitalization
and help the L-GHD in the Yellow River Basin of China.