Impacts of the Sustainable Development of Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zones on Regional Economic Growth

This paper evaluates the sustainable development of cross-border e-commerce pilot zones and their impact on regional economic growth. A comprehensive performance evaluation system is constructed to assess degree in first five batches China between 2011 2020, which reveals significant differences a clear “Matthew effect”. We also quantify specific role promoting growth; specifically, we demonstrate that level has positive growth show these effects vary according distribution, city level, zones. On this basis, explore mechanism through factors influence one another identify three main channels focus for further development: industrial structure upgrades, institutional innovation, consumption upgrades. Finally, based empirical results, propose differentiated policy suggestions various regions levels provision theoretical practical support healthy stable economies.