Research on Innovative Development of Leading Industries in Rural Revitalization: Taking Sichuan Province as an Example

The imbalance between urban and rural development and the imbalance between the eastern and western regions in Sichuan Province is a prominent issue, and the rural revitalization strategy is a strategic opportunity to achieve high-quality development in the province. The foundation of rural revitalization strategy lies in industrial prosperity, which mainly depends on the development of rural leading industries. To study the relationship between the development of rural revitalization leading industries and economic factors, innovation factors, and regional space, the paper selected the added value of the primary industry in various cities (autonomous prefectures) in Sichuan Province from 2012 to 2021 as the dependent variable. The selected explanatory variables include consumption indicators, investment indicators, production factor indicators, and innovation factor indicators. Considering the adjacency relationship between cities (autonomous prefectures), the Queen criterion is used to set the first-order adjacency spatial weight matrix for each city (autonomous prefectures) in Sichuan Province. The spatial econometric analysis software GeoDa is used for global and local correlation analysis. By analyzing the spatial relationship between the added value of the primary industry and relevant economic factors in Sichuan Province since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this study investigates the innovative development of rural revitalization leading industries. By applying innovation theory, it is pointed out that the innovative development of the leading industries in rural revitalization in Sichuan Province must establish a collaborative system of industrial structure innovation, industrial organization innovation, industrial technology innovation, and industrial policy innovation. Rural leading industries must be integrated through industrial space.