Empirical Study on the Promotion of Industrial Structure Upgrading by Aviation Economy: A Case Study of National Airport Economic Zones

With the rapid growth of civil aviation and economic integration, aviation economic zones centered on large airports have a significant economic impact on surrounding areas. These zones foster the concentration of technology, capital, and labor, leading to the emergence of new regional economic models. This research, based on data from 17 national-level aviation economic demonstration zones, develops an evaluation index system for aviation economic development and constructs a regression model incorporating industrial structure coefficients. It empirically analyzes the relationship between the development of aviation economy and the upgrading of industrial structure in cities with national-level aviation economic zones, revealing the aviation economy’s role in promoting industrial structure upgrading and providing policy recommendations for regional economic innovation.