社会资本与城市竞争力的关系——基于国际友好城市视角  

The Relationship between Social Capital and Urban Competitiveness—Based on the Perspective of International Sister Cities

作　　者：武力超[1] 朱桦 田雯雯 娄逸娴 方心怡 WU Lichao;ZHU Hua;TIAN Wenwen;LOU Yixian;FANG Xinyi

机构地区：[1]厦门大学经济学院国际经济与贸易系,福建厦门361005 [2]上海财经大学经济学院,上海200433

出　　处：《深圳社会科学》2024年第4期65-78,共14页Social Sciences in Shenzhen

基　　金：国家社会科学基金一般项目“碳中和背景下企业技术创新引领型发展与政策引导研究”(21BJL088)。

摘　　要：随着经济全球化的深入发展,经济竞争的重点逐渐从独立的要素产业扩大到城市综合实力水平的各个方面。城市竞争力是城市对外发展、创造财富并提升城市社会经济地位的重要综合能力,其强弱关系着城市的未来发展。社会资本能够促进地区的经济增长,正成为城市竞争力的主要来源。国际友好城市构建的城市网络是社会资本的重要组成部分,可以在一定程度上对城市的社会资本丰裕程度进行阐释。基于2012—2018年全国284个地级市的面板统计数据进行实证研究,结果表明,社会资本对城市竞争力的发展有积极的影响,即社会资本越丰厚,其城市竞争力越强,并且通过了一系列稳健性检验。这种影响在一定程度上是由社会资本的独特属性引起的,社会资本作为社会各主体之间的粘合剂,虽然没有直接参与社会生产,但仍为城市竞争力的发展做出重要贡献。进一步探讨社会资本促进城市竞争力提升的作用渠道发现社会资本通过提高主体间互信水平、促进贸易往来以及提高政府治理能力这三条可能的渠道对城市竞争力产生积极影响。社会资本对于提高城市竞争力,并由城市高质量发展带动经济高质量发展具有现实意义。With the deepening development of economic globalization,the focus of economic competition has gradually expanded from independent factor industries to all aspects of the city’s comprehensive strength level.Urban competitiveness is an important comprehensive ability for a city to develop externally,create wealth,and enhance the city’s socioeconomic status.Its strength is related to the future development of the city.Social capital can promote regional economic growth and is becoming the main source of urban competitiveness.The urban network constructed by international sister cities is an important part of social capital and can explain the abundance of social capital in a city to a certain extent.This article conducts an empirical study based on panel statistical data from 284 prefecture-level cities across the country from 2012 to 2018.The research results show that social capital has a positive impact on the development of urban competitiveness,that is,the richer the social capital,the stronger the urban competitiveness.This article believes that this impact is caused to a certain extent by the unique properties of social capital.Social capital,as the adhesive between various social subjects,does not directly participate in social production,but still makes important contributions to the development of urban competitiveness.Through the mechanism test,it was found that social capital has a positive impact on urban competitiveness through three possible channels:improving the level of mutual trust between subjects,promoting trade exchanges,and improving government governance capabilities.The results of this article have practical significance for how to improve urban competitiveness and drive high-quality economic development from urban high-quality development.

关 键 词：社会资本 城市竞争力 国际友好城市 高质量发展 

分 类 号：F299.2[经济管理—国民经济]