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Research on the Promoting Effect of Industrial Integration in Western Guangdong Region on Farmers' Entrepreneurship

Author(s)

Haoyuan Li, Jiayi Liang*, Siyu Ling

Affiliation(s)

Business School, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Industrial integration has injected new impetus into farmers' entrepreneurship by promoting the coordinated development of counties, towns and villages, and provided systematic support for farmers' entrepreneurship in terms of resource integration, market expansion and value enhancement. As a concentrated area of major agricultural cities in Guangdong Province, the western part of Guangdong has unique resource endowments. However, farmers' entrepreneurship is confronted with pain points such as insufficient technology, lagging market information, and difficulty in cross-regional resource integration. The research suggests that by building an industrial integration service platform, strengthening technological empowerment and brand cultivation, the promoting effect of industrial integration on farmers' entrepreneurship should be further released, and the participation rate and success rate of farmers' entrepreneurship should be enhanced. This paper aims to systematically analyze the direct effects, intermediary mechanisms and spatial spillover effects of industrial integration in the western Guangdong region on farmers' entrepreneurship, identify the practical obstacles it faces, and then propose optimization paths to provide references.

Keywords

Industrial Integration; Farmers' Entrepreneurship; Influence Mechanism; Mediating Mechanism

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