Research on the Economic Development Threshold Effect of the Employment Density of the Shanghai Consumer Goods Industry in the Context of New Manufacturing, Based on the Experience Comparison with International Metropolis

Lei Shen, Xi Zhang, Hongda Liu and Pinbo Yao
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Lei Shen: Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China
Xi Zhang: Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China
Hongda Liu: School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Pinbo Yao: School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 9, 1-19

Abstract: With the rise of a new generation of technology and industrial changes, the service-oriented manufacturing industry has become the direction of future development. With the background of new manufacturing, this paper constructs an economic development threshold model of employment density of consumer goods industry based on data from Shanghai and Tokyo from 2007 to 2016, and empirically analyzes the impact of the employment density of the consumer goods industry on urban economic development under different population densities. At the same time, by comparing the experience of Tokyo, the development status and prospects of Shanghai’s consumer goods industry are explored. The study found that the threshold of Tokyo’s consumer goods industry is 0.608. When population density is lower than this threshold, the consumer goods industry continues to promote the economic development of Tokyo; however, when the population density is higher than this threshold, the consumer goods industry begins to inhibit the economic development of Tokyo. The Shanghai consumer goods industry threshold is 0.329. Under the threshold, most of the consumer goods industry contributions to the economy are negative, but above the threshold, they begin to show a positive trend. The inflection point of the effect curve of Tokyo’s consumer goods industry on economic development has appeared, but the inflection point of Shanghai’s consumer goods industry has not yet appeared. Compared with Tokyo, the economic vitality of Shanghai’s consumer goods industry has not yet been fully released. With the continued increase of population density in Shanghai, the growth potential of the consumer goods industry is huge, and it is expected to reshape the flourishing age of Shanghai’s light industry brand.

Keywords: new manufacturing; consumer goods industry; employment density; population density; threshold model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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