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Does county financial marketization promote high-quality development of agricultural economy?: Analysis of the mechanism of county urbanization

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  • Yang Liu
  • JunFu Cui
  • Liang Feng
  • Hua Yan

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China’s agricultural economy has been hindered by insufficient accumulation of agricultural capital and credit constraints. It is worth investigating whether China’s county financial marketization reform policy can alleviate these constraints and promote high-quality development of the agricultural economy (HQDAE). This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of county financial marketization reform on the HQDAE, based on county panel data. The focus is on the mechanism of county urbanization in the above relationship. The results show that county financial marketization has a significant non-linear impact on the HQDAE. Specifically, it has a ’U-shaped’ impact on the overall growth of the agricultural economy and an inverted ’N-shaped’ impact on the quality improvement of the agricultural economy. Secondly, the relationship between county financial marketization and the HQDAE is influenced by a threshold effect based on the level of county urbanization. As the level of county urbanization increases, the promoting effect of county financial marketization on HQDAE also increases significantly. Additionally, county financial marketization helps to promote county urbanization and accelerate urban-rural integration, which in turn leads to HQDAE. The research in this paper suggests that county-level local governments should promote a differentiated county financial system. In the early stages of financial market-oriented reform, the government should enhance the capacity of financial services in rural areas through tax breaks, policy incentives, and other measures to prevent financial leakage from agriculture. In the later stages of financial marketization reform, the government should strengthen financial supervision to prevent financial resources from being diverted from industry to capital. Moreover, to achieve the HQDAE, it is necessary to promote county financial market-oriented reform and accelerate the construction of county urbanization. This will help break the dual economic structure of urban and rural areas and promote the flow of financial capital, technology, and human capital from county cities to rural areas.

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  • Yang Liu & JunFu Cui & Liang Feng & Hua Yan, 2024. "Does county financial marketization promote high-quality development of agricultural economy?: Analysis of the mechanism of county urbanization," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(3), pages 1-25, March.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298594
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