Is the Development of E-commerce Spatially Relevant?: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

Abstract

While e-commerce is booming, it also exposes the problem of uneven regional development. This paper takes 31 provinces as the research object and uses spatial measurement methods to analyze whether the development of e-commerce has a spatial correlation. The research shows that at the level of global autocorrelation, China's e-commerce development does not have spatial correlation, showing the situation of random development in various places, In terms of local autocorrelation, there is no polarization and diffusion effect in e-commerce sales and e-commerce purchases in various provinces, but there are polarization and diffusion effect in the number of enterprises with e-commerce activities. The research in this paper shows that the spatial correlation of e-commerce development between provinces is not significant, and the distribution status of "East Strong but West Weak" shows the problem of echelon solidification between provinces.