Analysis of the Internal Mechanism and Spatial Spillover Effect of Agricultural Digitalization Empowering Rural-Urban Integration Development

农业数字化作为现代农业发展的新引擎，显著提升了农业生产效率和效益，推动了乡村经济转型升级，其融合性和创新性特征促进了城乡要素流动，打破了城乡二元结构，实现了资源共享和互补。文章基于2012~2022年的省级面板数据，从实证层面考察了农业数字化促进城乡融合发展的内在机理与空间溢出效应。研究发现：农业数字化能有效推动城乡融合发展。机制检验揭示，农村劳动力流动、农村金融服务供给和农业科技创新是农业数字化推动城乡融合的重要路径。进一步研究发现，农业数字化不仅促进本地城乡融合，还具有正向空间溢出效应，并且呈现出“本地促进、邻域抑制”的复杂空间交互特征。As a new engine for the development of modern agriculture, agricultural digitalization significantly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural production, promotes the transformation and upgrading of the rural economy, and its integrative and innovative features promote the flow of urban and rural factors, break the urban-rural dichotomy, and realize the sharing and complementarity of resources. Based on provincial panel data from 2012 to 2022, the article empirically examines the internal mechanism and spatial spillover effects of agricultural digitalization for urban-rural integrated development. It is found that agricultural digitalization can effectively promote urban-rural integrated development. The mechanism test reveals that rural labor mobility, rural financial service supply and agricultural science and technology innovation are important paths for agricultural digitalization to promote urban-rural integration. Further research finds that agricultural digitization not only promotes local urban-rural integration, but also has positive spatial spillover effects, and presents a complex spatial interaction characteristic of “local promotion and neighborhood inhibition”.