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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Land Use Dynamics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1546082
This article is part of the Research Topic Moving Towards Sustainable Development: Exploring the Impact of Land-Use Policies on Land Green Utilization Efficiency View all articles

Digital rural construction, resource mismatch, and rural land use efficiency

Provisionally accepted
Zhiguo Fan Zhiguo Fan 1*Fenghua Guo Fenghua Guo 2*chen Bian chen Bian 1*
  • 1 Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, Shandong, China
  • 2 Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

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    With the acceleration of the allocation of agricultural resource elements in agricultural development, the relationship between digital rural construction and rural land use efficiency has become increasingly close. In order to explore the impact and underlying mechanism of digital rural construction on rural land use efficiency, this paper constructs an evaluation system index for digital rural construction in China and uses the SBM-GML model to measure rural land use efficiency.Based on this, data from 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2022 were used and fixed effect and mediation effect models were used to test it. The results showed that (1) digital rural construction can directly promote the improvement of rural land use efficiency. This conclusion still holds true after endogeneity and robustness tests. (2) Mechanism analysis shows that digital rural construction can alleviate the mismatch of land resources, capital resources, and labor resources, thereby indirectly promoting the improvement of rural land use efficiency. (3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the construction of digital rural areas has a more significant driving effect on the efficiency of rural land use in eastern and southern regions of China, as well as in major grain producing and selling areas.Based on this, this article suggests continuing to promote the development strategy of digital rural construction, improving the problem of resource mismatch, and paying attention to the regional imbalance of digital rural construction. It is necessary to maintain the leading position of "first mover advantage" areas and also pay attention to filling the gaps in "later mover advantage" areas, in order to comprehensively promote the further improvement of rural land use efficiency.

    Keywords: digital village construction, rural land use efficiency, land resource mismatch, capital resource mismatch, labor resource mismatch

    Received: 16 Dec 2024; Accepted: 13 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Fan, Guo and Bian. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Zhiguo Fan, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, 262700, Shandong, China
    Fenghua Guo, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, 233030, Anhui Province, China
    chen Bian, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, 262700, Shandong, China

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