Research on the Correlation between "Digital Literacy" and "New Poverty" Risk of Farmers in Frontier Minority Areas_Vol. 3 No. 2 (JSE 2026)_Journal of Statistics and Economics (ISSN: 3005-5733)

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Research on the Correlation between "Digital Literacy" and "New Poverty" Risk of Farmers in Frontier Minority Areas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jse.202611204

Author(s)

Chaomin Gao1,2, Chan Zhang1,*

Affiliation(s)

1School of Business Administration, Baise University, Baise, Guangxi, China 2The Revitalization and Development of Old Revolutionary Areas in Guangxi, Baise, Guangxi, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Under the background of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and the construction of digital China, the frontier ethnic minority areas are facing the risk of "new poverty" caused by the "digital divide" due to the special regional conditions such as geography, economy and culture. Based on theoretical analysis and abandoning traditional empirical quantification, this study systematically analyzes the deep internal relationship between the digital literacy of farmers in frontier minority areas and the risk of new poverty. It is found that farmers have significant practical difficulties in digital access, skill application and information identification, which leads to income exclusion in the economic dimension, relationship isolation in the social dimension, identity marginalization in the cultural dimension, and relative deprivation in the psychological dimension. This multi-dimensional social exclusion further evolves into the interactive evolution characteristics of vulnerability accumulation, intergenerational transmission of disadvantage and social diffusion of risk. Therefore, it is necessary to comprehensively enhance farmers' digital literacy from the level of administrative management and social collaborative governance by consolidating digital infrastructure, building digital cultivation system, improving social support network and optimizing policy collaborative governance, so as to effectively block new poverty risks and help achieve high-quality common prosperity.

Keywords

Frontier Minority Areas; Digital Literacy; New Poverty Risks; Social Exclusion; Rural Revitalization

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