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Spatiotemporal evolution of efficiency and driving factors of Chinese herbal medicine industry

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Exploring the evolution process of the industrial efficiency of the Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is an important link to promote the development of characteristic ecological agriculture industry. The regional differences and spatiotemporal pattern of the CHM industry efficiency of China were calculated by using the data envelope analysis, the Malmquist index and the spatiotemporal and geographically weighted regression. The results showed that the spatial difference of the CHM industry efficiency was significant, and the average efficiency level was low. The provinces whose industry efficiency reached the effective level were mainly concentrated in northwest China. Technical efficiency has been the main reason that restricts the comprehensive industry efficiency. The impact of technology and labor factors on the CHM industry efficiency in the western China is higher than that in the eastern China, but the impact of economy and investment factors on the efficiency in the eastern China is higher than that in the western China. The education factor has little influence on the CHM industry efficiency, while the traffic factor has an increasing impact. It is suggested that strengthening investment in technology innovation, emphasizing and promoting the modernization and standardization of CHM processing are important means to improve the regional CHM industry efficiency.

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The datasets generated during the current study are available in the National Bureau of Statistics web, Data Center for Resources and Environmental Sciences, and China Basic Geographic Information Center (https://data.stats.gov.cn; https://www.resdc.cn; http://www.ngcc.cn/ngcc). The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Liberal arts and Social Sciences Foundation (Grant No. 19YJCZH228), the Natural Science Research Project of Education Department of Guizhou Province (No. Qian Jiaohe KY [2021]133) and the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Projects (ZK[2022] normal 030). The authors are grateful to the reviewers for their help and thought-provoking comments.

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  1. School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, No.174, Shazheng Street, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 400040, China

    Qiu Yuanhong & Cao Yuequn

  2. Pass College of Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, 401520, China

    Zhang Ting

  3. School of Big Data Application and Economics, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China

    Yin Jian & Xu Zetian

  4. Western Modernization Research Center, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China

    Yin Jian

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Yuanhong, Q., Ting, Z., Jian, Y. et al. Spatiotemporal evolution of efficiency and driving factors of Chinese herbal medicine industry. Environ Dev Sustain (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03329-3

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