Comprehensive evaluation of digital economy system
The paper employs the entropy weight method to calculate the comprehensive score of the digital economy for each city. Subsequently, the paper obtains the comprehensive score ranking of digital economies of urban agglomerations using weighted average results. The resulting grades are distributed in proportion (see Table 5).
Table 5 Comprehensive score and classification of digital economy system in urban agglomerations of China.
Overall, the digital economy in all urban agglomerations saw an initial upward trend from 2011 to 2020, followed by a downward trend in some urban areas in 2020. These findings are consistent with the fact that while the foundation of China’s digital economy is relatively solid in 2011–2020, but it still faces structural imbalances, limited core technologies, inadequate implementation and a lack of…
