Digital economy empowering the development level of chinese manufacturing industry

With the transition and upgrading of China's industrial economy, the digital economy has gradually become a pivotal engine enabling the development of manufacturing. According to panel data from China's 30 provinces excluding Tibet from 2011 to 2019, this study analyses the path of the digital economy empowering the manufacturing development level using the moderated mediating effect model. The empirical results show that: Overall, the digital economy can break the time-space constraints of traditional information transmission and positively promote the development of manufacturing; In the viewpoint of the mechanism of action, there are two realisation paths: "the digital economy -alleviating the misallocation of talents-manufacturing development level" and "the digital economy-science and technology driven-manufacturing development level", and the second path is positively regulated by the industrial integration degree.