Evaluation and Coupling Coordination Analysis of Digital Economy Development Level in Guangdong Province: An Empirical Study from 2013-2020

Abstract

This paper constructed a digital economy evaluation index system with 32 indicators from four dimensions, including digital foundation, digital industrialization, industrial digitalization and digital environment, and evaluated the development level of digital economy in Guangdong Province from 2013 to 2020 by using entropy weight method. The results show that the digital economy of Guangdong province and its internal four dimensions have developed rapidly from 2013 to 2020, and the development level of digital economy in Guangdong Province is relatively high at present. The coupling coordination analysis shows that there are strong interactions among the four dimensions of digital economy from 2013 to 2020, and each dimension is in a highly orderly development state in 2020. From 2013 to 2015, the coordination of all dimensions is poor, and all belong to digital environment lag disorder. The coordination of all dimensions improved year by year from 2016 to 2020, and reached the state of quality coordination in 2019 and 2020.