Feng Guo;Youbin Cao;

• 1:College of Public Finance and Investment
• 2: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Abstract：

Profound digital transformation is one of the most significant features of the current economic society, which has also ignited a surge of academic research in the digital economics in China. However, there are several prominent issues that need to be reflected upon in the current related research: overly macroscopic indicator measurement, excessive focus on “big and comprehensive” research objects, failure to highlight the core characteristics of the digital economics in research perspectives, and lagging behind in research data and techniques.To address these issues, future research should focus on the following areas: transforming from “big and comprehensive” to “small and precise” in research objects, revealing the new changes in economic and social relationships in the digital economy era through the core characteristics of the digital economics in research perspectives; widely using multi-source big data deeply penetrated by the digital economy in research data; and embracing cutting-edge technical methods to support empirical research in research techniques. Utilizing the big data and new technologies such as artificial intelligence generated by the penetration of the digital economy, and examining and analyzing the new changes in economic and social relationships under the influence of the digital economy from the core characteristics of the digital economics, is the most ideal research paradigm for the digital economics.

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Foundation: 国家自然科学基金面上项目（批准号：72473091）;; 上海市曙光学者项目（批准号：24SG33）;; 上海市社会科学规划课题（批准号：2023ZJB006）;; 上海市教委人工智能促进研范式变革赋能学科跃升计划;; 中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金（批准号：CXJJ-2024-349）的资助

Authors: Feng Guo;Youbin Cao;

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• ① 中国国家统计局等官方部门并未披露过我国数字经济的增加值规模，仅在不同时间点公布过数字经济核心产业增加值数据。例如，根据《“十四五”数字经济发展规划》,2020年我国数字经济核心产业增加值占GDP的比重达7.8%;根据第五次全国经济普查结果，2023年我国数字经济核心产业增加值占GDP的比重为9.9%。因此，本文以中国信息通信研究院的测算结果作为数字经济整体增加值规模的主要参考依据。 (1)检索时间为2025年2月。 (2)以digital economics或digital economy为关键词直接在Web of Science中进行检索,很少能在主流经济学国际权威期刊中检索到这类文献。即使是检索到相关文献,其中的很大部分作者其实也是中国学者。 (3)《数字经济及其核心产业统计分类(2021)》(国家统计局令第33号)。 (4)互联网普及率数据来源于《中国互联网络发展状况统计报告》。