Theoretical Adaptability and Mechanism of the "Jinjiang Experience" in Leading the Innovative Development of Digital Cultural Tourism
Keywords:
Jinjiang Experience; Digital Cultural Tourism; Theoretical Adaptability; Functioning Mechanism; Innovative DevelopmentAbstract
Against the backdrop of the 15th Five-Year Plan explicitly proposing the innovative development of the "Jinjiang Experience", digital cultural tourism, as a new form of integrated modern service industry and digital economy, urgently requires adaptable localized theoretical guidance for its high-quality development. This study extends the application scenario of China's "Jinjiang Experience" from traditional manufacturing to the field of digital cultural tourism, aiming to systematically deconstruct the theoretical adaptability between the two and reveal the internal mechanism of its leading role. Through literature review and theoretical deduction, this paper first clarifies the core connotation and contemporary significance of the "Jinjiang Experience": market-oriented, private-sector-led, entity-based, reform and innovation-driven, and coordinated development. Furthermore, it constructs an analytical framework for the theoretical adaptability between the "Jinjiang Experience" and the innovative development of digital cultural tourism from five dimensions: value orientation, development subject, driving force, practical path, and ultimate goal. The study argues that the "Jinjiang Experience" leads digital cultural tourism to achieve profound transformations from factor-driven to innovation-driven, from homogeneous competition to characteristic development, and from government-led to multi-stakeholder governance through the fourfold mechanism of "strategic anchoring – market activation – factor empowerment – governance coordination".
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