流通业发展对城乡居民收入差距的影响——基于电商发展中介效应的实证研究
The Impact of Distribution Industry Development on the Income Gap between Urban and Rural Residents—Empirical Research Based on the Mediating Effect of E-Commerce Development

文章利用2000年至2022年31个省份的面板数据，重点分析了流通业发展对我国城乡收入差距的影响，探讨了电商发展作为中介变量发挥的作用。结果显示，流通业的发展对缩小城乡收入差距具有显著的正向作用，并且电商发展在其中起到了重要的中介作用，但由于城乡资源分配不均、数字鸿沟及市场集中效应等因素的限制，电商发展的中介效应并不完全显现为正向。因此文章建议加强流通业基础设施建设，提升农产品流通效率，推动电商与流通业的融合发展，充分发挥电商对缩小城乡收入差距的潜力。
This research utilizes panel data from 31 provinces from 2000 to 2022 to focus on analyzing the impact of the development of the circulation industry on the urban-rural income gap in China, while exploring the role of e-commerce development as a mediating variable. The results show that the development of the circulation industry has a significant positive effect on narrowing the urban-rural income gap, and e-commerce development plays an important mediating role in this process. However, due to factors such as uneven resource distribution between urban and rural areas, the digital divide, and market concentration effects, the mediating effect of e-commerce development does not fully manifest as positive. Therefore, this research suggests strengthening the infrastructure of the circulation industry, improving the efficiency of agricultural product circulation, and promoting the integration of e-commerce with the circulation industry to fully leverage the potential of e-commerce in reducing the urban-rural income gap.