互联网的发展对城乡居民收入差距的影响——以2014~2021年中国31个省市和自治区为例
The Impact of the Development of Internet on the Income Gap between Urban and Rural Residents—Taking 31 Provinces, Municipalities and Autonomous Regions in China from 2014 to 2021 as an Example

改革开放以来，中国的经济增长快速且稳定，但是巨大的城乡居民收入差距是中国经济急迫需要解决的问题。互联网作为新时代的产物，打破了传统信息传递的壁垒，使得城乡居民能够更加快速获得市场信息和资源。但对于互联网的发展是否缩小了城乡居民收入差距尚需得到验证。基于2014~2021年31个省市和自治区面板数据，实证分析互联网与城乡居民收入差距之间的关系。研究结果表明：互联网的发展能有效缩小城乡居民收入差距。从地区异域性研究看中部地区内互联网发展对城乡居民收入起到的缩小作用最大，其次是西部地区，东部地区内互联网发展对城乡居民收入起到的缩小作用最小。因此，加速普及互联网，对于缩小城乡居民收入差距具有重要意义。
Since the reform and opening up, China’s economic growth has been rapid and stable, but the huge income gap between urban and rural residents is an urgent problem that China’s economy needs to solve. As a product of the new era, the Internet has broken the traditional barriers of information transmission, enabling urban and rural residents to obtain market information and resources more quickly. However, whether the popularization of the Internet has narrowed the income gap between urban and rural residents still needs to be verified. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces and autonomous regions from 2014 to 2021, this paper uses the panel regression model to empirically analyze the relationship between the Internet and the income gap between urban and rural residents. The results show that the development of Internet can effectively narrow the income gap between urban and rural residents. From the study of regional heterogeneity, the Internet development in the central region has the largest shrinking effect on the income of urban and rural residents, followed by the western region, and the Internet development in the eastern region has the smallest shrinking effect on the income of urban and rural residents. Therefore, accelerating the popularization of the Internet is of great significance for narrowing the income gap between urban and rural residents.