The north–south gap and spillover effect of Chinese service industry green development

Taking the Qinling-Huaihe River as boundary, this paper divides Chinese service industry into north and south regions. The current study calculates green total factor productivity of from 2003 to 2019 by using DEA-Malmquist index method. influencing factors in China are tested Moran spatial Durbin model. results show that shows great regional heterogeneity. average northern is 1.4 percentage points lower than southern China. leading for growth technological progress, while TFP mainly depends on technical efficiency improvement. econometric regression intensive level producer services plays a significant role promoting development industry. transportation infrastructure can significantly promote Finally, some suggestions provided narrow gap between