The influence of high-speed rails on urban innovation and the underlying mechanism

Lu, Yue; Yang, Siying; Jian, Li

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264779

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“…The public services carried by infrastructure are at the heart of cities. Taking the transportation construction in Beijing, Shanghai, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as examples, infrastructure innovation has become an important force in China's national innovation system [21].…”

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The Effects of New Urbanization Pilot City Policies on Urban Innovation: Evidence from China

Wang

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et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The new urbanization city pilot policy is China’s most recent policy on urban urbanization. This paper uses new urbanization pilot policies as a quasi-natural experiment to empirically test the impact of new urbanization pilot policies on urban innovation through the difference-in-differences (DID) method using panel data from 199 cities in China from 2011 to 2019. The results show that: (1) The new urbanization city pilot policy has significantly enhanced urban innovation. (2) The theoretical mechanism test shows that the pilot policy of new urbanization promotes urban innovation through the level of human capital. (3) The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that the new urbanization pilot policies have obvious city-level heterogeneity and regional heterogeneity on the improvement of urban innovation levels. The impact effect of new urbanization pilot policies is higher in first-tier and second-tier cities than in fourth-tier and fifth-tier cities; the effect of new urbanization pilot policies is higher in western regions than in eastern and middle regions.

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Section: ) Explanatory Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of New Urbanization Pilot City Policies on Urban Innovation: Evidence from China

Wang

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et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…This paper sets the following control variables based on Lu's research [47]: (1) The level of economic development (LnPgdp). This paper uses the nominal GDP of prefecturelevel cities in China to de-price the base period of 2003 to obtain the actual GDP of each year and then divide it by the total population at the end of the corresponding year.…”

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The Impact of Opening a High-Speed Railway on Urban Innovation: A Comparative Perspective of Traditional Innovation and Green Innovation

Ma,

Tan,

2023

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Transportation infrastructure is essential to regional innovation systems, and the high-speed railway (HSR) is reshaping China’s regional innovation pattern. Previous research lacks an analysis of the impact of opening an HSR on urban traditional and green innovation. This paper uses urban panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2019 to study the impact and mechanism of opening an HSR on urban innovation from a comparative perspective. The results of a multi-period difference-in-difference (DID) model show that opening an HSR can promote both traditional and green urban innovation, especially impacting urban green innovation. A further analysis of the mechanism of action found that high-quality talent and communication infrastructures are two crucial mechanisms of transmission for the opening of an HSR to affect urban innovation. In addition, heterogeneity analysis showed that opening an HSR promotes traditional urban and green innovation for cities in general. However, for central cities, the opening of an HSR has no significant impact on green innovation and has little effect on promoting traditional innovation. The policy inspiration of this paper is that, in the face of an innovation gap and the inequality of regional innovation and development, the construction of HSRs should be promoted according to local conditions. Construction and layout resources should be shifted from central cities to general cities to narrow the regional innovation gap. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the roles of the flow of high-quality talent and communication infrastructure in promoting urban innovation and sustainable urban development.

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“…Since the concept of highquality development was proposed, scholars conducted systematic and in-depth studies on different areas, such as conceptual discussions, realization paths, metrics, and economic linkages [12]. At the same time, studies on the economic effects of the HSR mainly explored the effects of the HSR on different macro-levels, such as economic growth [7,8,[13][14][15], economic geography [16][17][18], industrial structure [19], innovation development [20,21], environmental pollution [3,22,23], employment [14], and so on [13,14]. The studies mainly focus on the micro perspective of the dilemma, connotation, and realization path of the highquality development of enterprise; or, they attach importance to the "one-sided" effect of the HSR on enterprise investment, import, export, innovation, etc.…”

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Does High-Speed Railway Promote High-Quality Development of Enterprises? Evidence from China’s Listed Companies

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The high-quality development of enterprises is the micro-foundation of China’s economic growth model from “speed and scale” to “quality and efficiency,” in which China’s transportation infrastructure, especially the high-speed railways (HSRs), plays an indispensable role. We select the propensity score matching and difference in difference (PSM-DID) model as the identification strategy and empirically analyze the impact of the HSR on the high-quality development of enterprises based on empirical data of 1331 A-share listed companies in China. The results show that the HSR has a significant positive impact on the high-quality development of enterprises. This effect is more substantial for enterprises in the Pearl River Delta, the Triangle of Central China, and small and medium-sized cities. The HSR inhibited the high-quality development of enterprises in the mining, culture, sports, and entertainment industries in eastern and central China. The reason is the restriction of the ability to create social and environmental value and the influence of monopolistic competition. The HSR improves labor mobility, capital expansion, and knowledge spillovers, thereby promoting the high-quality development of enterprises. However, new infrastructure mainly improves the high-quality development of enterprises by promoting knowledge spillovers and technological innovation. This paper contributes to the modernization of China’s HSR network and provides essential insights for the HSR to achieve sustainable development goals.

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The influence of high-speed rails on urban innovation and the underlying mechanism

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

The Effects of New Urbanization Pilot City Policies on Urban Innovation: Evidence from China

The Effects of New Urbanization Pilot City Policies on Urban Innovation: Evidence from China

The Impact of Opening a High-Speed Railway on Urban Innovation: A Comparative Perspective of Traditional Innovation and Green Innovation

Does High-Speed Railway Promote High-Quality Development of Enterprises? Evidence from China’s Listed Companies

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