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.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.