TITLE:
Impacts of High-Speed Rail Stations Opening on the Regional Innovation Level —Analysis Based on Scoring Tendency Matching Model
AUTHORS:
Hongyu Fan
KEYWORDS:
HSR Site Opening, Regional Innovation Level, PSM, Heterogeneity Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.11 No.2,
February
18,
2020
ABSTRACT: In the background of the era of the “eight
horizontal and eight vertical” high-speed rail (HSR), HSR has had a great impact on the location
conditions of cities along the route, and the emergence of HSR compresses the
“space-time” distance between regions, greatly promoting the flow of factors
between regions. This paper analyzes the possible impact of HSR station opening
on regional innovation level, tests the impact of HSR station opening on the
level of urban innovation by combining the PSM model combined with panel data
regression model, carries on the robustness test of the results with the tool
variables, and further explores the impact of the influence on the
heterogeneity of different characteristic cities. The study found that the
opening of HSR stations has a significant positive impact on the improvement of
regional innovation level in terms of average effect, but the cities with
different locations have significant differences, and the level of urban
innovation in the eastern and western regions where HSR stations are not set up
is significantly higher than that of cities without HSR stations, while the
impact on the eastern region is significantly greater than that of the western
regions, but the opening of HSR stations has little impact on the level of
urban innovation in the central and western regions, mainly because the eastern
region has a good foundation for innovation, and the western region has a
highly inclined support policy. This paper thinks that the government should
further expand the construction of HSR network, and pay attention to the use of
policy means to narrow the differences in the level of innovation between
regions.