Research on the Mechanisms and Paths of New-Quality Productive Forces Empowering Urban-Rural Integrated Development in Suzhou

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202612118

Author(s)

Zhouyu Tian*, Yuxia Guo

Affiliation(s)

Business School, Suzhou University, Suzhou, Anhui, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Adhering to urban-rural integrated development and smoothing the two-way flow of urban-rural factors, with integration being a key path to common prosperity. New-quality productive forces (NPP), driven by technological innovation, offer a new approach to breaking the urban-rural dual structure. Taking Suzhou as the research object, this paper empirically tests NPP’s empowering effect, transmission mechanism and threshold characteristics on urban-rural integration using the improved entropy weight-TOPSIS method, threshold regression model and mediation effect model, based on 2023-2025 panel data. Results show NPP significantly promotes Suzhou’s integration (benchmark coefficient 0.326, p<0.01); industrial integration (31.3%), factor mobility (26.4%) and public service equalization (23.9%) are core mediation channels. The effect has a double threshold based on market development, doubling after crossing 3.25 (coefficient from 0.156 to 0.562). Facing issues like insufficient industrial coordination and obstructed factor flow, Suzhou needs to unlock NPP’s potential via innovation-driven development, breaking factor barriers and promoting service equalization. This study provides theoretical and practical references for urban-rural integration in northern Anhui’s agricultural cities.

Keywords

New-Quality Productive Forces; Urban-Rural Integration; Mediation Effect; Threshold Effect; Suzhou

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