Dataset:The Impact of Digital Inclusion on Rural-Urban Integration: Evidence from China(2006–2019)

Although digital inclusion is globally recognized as a crucial pathway to equitable development, rigorous empirical evidence on its specific mechanisms and regionally varying effects in driving rural-urban integration within developing countries remains scarce. To address this gap, this study adopts fixed-effects models and robustness checks to rigorously analyze the impact of digital inclusion on rural-urban integration, drawing on evidence from China. The findings demonstrate that digital inclusion enhances rural-urban integration by mitigating information asymmetry and improving access to educational resources, healthcare, and industrial convergence. However, there is a significant positive effect in eastern and central China, but an insignificant effect in the western region. These results challenge the conventional assumption of uniformly positive impacts from digital policies and underscore the necessity for spatially differentiated interventions. By integrating mechanism analysis with regional disparity diagnostics, this research deepens the theoretical understanding of digital inclusion's societal effects and provides crucial empirical support and policy insights for developing countries seeking to formulate regionally differentiated digital inclusion strategies.