Industrial upgrading seen from the perspective of the sociology of consumption

伴随着消费单位的扩大,消费者的消费层级也将提高到更高的层次。更高的消费层级意味着消费对象的范围扩大,即从具体的物品消费上升到对一个地方或城市的整体的消费。这种对更高层级或更大范围的消费对象的价值偏好和额外的价格支付意愿,可以称为“地方消费主义”。具有高人力资本的人才往往是地方消费主义观念的携带者。他们的择地行为影响了高新技术产业公司的选址行为。而城市政府为了吸引高新技术公司,不但要考虑这些公司的盈利需要,而且要考虑人才的舒适物偏好或人才的地方消费主义观念。在劳动力自由流动的条件下,地方消费主义构成助推城市产业结构优化升级的社会一文化力量。 

With the expansion of consumption unit, consumption layers will be upgraded to higher levels. This indicates that the subsequent extension of the object of consumption, namely, from the object of consumption as concrete goods to the object of consumption as a whole place or city. The preference for higher layers of consumption or larger object of consumption and the associated willingness of paying extra money for this preference, can be called "place consumerism". Those people who have higher levels of human capital are usually the one whose location selections are dictated by place consumerism. Subsequently, their location selections influence corporations' location selections. In order to attract high-tech corporations, urban governments need to consider not only the corporations' demands for profits, but also the talents' preference for amenities or talents' place consumerism in their policy making. Thus, under the condition of free mobility of labor force, place consumerism becomes a socio-cultural force that helps optimizing urban industrial structure.

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