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Taking the panel data of 74 cities in the five northwestern provinces and four southwestern provinces in the Silk Road Economic Belt from 2003 to 2018 as a sample, using propensity score matching and double difference method (PSM-DID) to conduct empirical research, the research found that: Firstly, in the urban agglomeration of the Silk Road Economic Belt, whether from the perspective of significance or robustness, the opening of high-speed rail has a significant positive impact on the regional economic effect, and there is a certain lag. Secondly, there is obvious heterogeneity in the impact of high-speed rail effect. In terms of city size, small and medium-sized cities are more affected by the opening of high-speed rail than large cities. From the administrative level, general cities are more susceptible to the opening of high-speed rail than key cities, and their economic development is better under the influence of high-speed rail effect. Thirdly, in terms of transmission mechanism, it is found that the opening of high-speed railway can promote urban economic development by improving the optimization of industrial structure, promoting labor mobility and reducing pollution emissions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jcm-226055","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,29]],"date-time":"2022-03-29T14:09:26Z","timestamp":1648562966000},"page":"1311-1331","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The impact of the opening of the high-speed railway in the Silk Road economic belt on the regional economy based on the double difference method (PSM-DID)"],"prefix":"10.66113","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Xuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yaxin","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Accounting School, Guangzhou Huashang College, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"55691","reference":[{"issue":"12","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref1","first-page":"769","article-title":"Atlantique: Traffic et economy","volume":"105","author":"Leboeuf","year":"1986","journal-title":"Rveue Generale Deschemins Defer."},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref2","first-page":"118","article-title":"The impact of high-speed rail on urban land prices and its mechanism: Evidence from microscopic land transactions","author":"Zhou","year":"2018","journal-title":"China Ind Econ."},{"issue":"11","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref3","first-page":"127","article-title":"The impact of China\u2019s high-speed railway on the economic agglomeration and equalization of cities along the line","volume":"33","author":"Li","year":"2016","journal-title":"Quant Econ Tech Econ Res."},{"issue":"6","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref4","first-page":"103","article-title":"The opening of high-speed rail, environmental pollution and urban economic development","volume":"35","author":"Sun","year":"2021","journal-title":"Soft Sci."},{"issue":"8","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref5","first-page":"136","article-title":"Transportation infrastructure and urban air pollution: Empirical evidence from China","volume":"54","author":"Sun","year":"2019","journal-title":"Econ Res."},{"issue":"2","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref6","first-page":"85","article-title":"The silk road economic belt: Is it a strategy to support the \u201cChinese Dream\u201d","author":"Li","year":"2015","journal-title":"Northeast Asia Forum"},{"issue":"27","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref7","first-page":"23","article-title":"The background and significance of the new silk road economic belt","author":"Chang","year":"2016","journal-title":"New Econ."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref8","first-page":"73","article-title":"Research on the impact of road connectivity level on bilateral trade \u2013 Take China and the countries along the \u201cSilk Road Economic Belt\u201d as an example","author":"Wang","year":"2020","journal-title":"Xinjiang Finance Econ."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref9","first-page":"25","article-title":"The opening of the high-speed railway and the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt","author":"Li","year":"2021","journal-title":"J Nanjing Univ Finance Econ."},{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref10","first-page":"144","article-title":"How does the opening of high-speed rail affect the total factor productivity of enterprises? \u2013 Based on the research of listed Chinese manufacturing enterprises","volume":"19","author":"Huang","year":"2019","journal-title":"J China Univ Geosci (Soc Sci Ed)."},{"issue":"6","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref12","first-page":"16","article-title":"Study on the impact of Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway on Shanghai-Hangzhou relations and the development of Hangzhou","volume":"25","author":"Yao","year":"2010","journal-title":"Mod Urban Studies."},{"issue":"44","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"203","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chieco.2017.02.008","article-title":"Do China\u2019s high-speed-rail projects promote local economy? \u2013 New evidence from a panel data approach","author":"Ke","year":"2017","journal-title":"China Econ Rev."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/JCM-226055_ref14","first-page":"168","article-title":"Can high-speed rail improve the accuracy of analysts\u2019 surplus forecasts? 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