Study on the Relationship Between E-Commerce and Industrial Structure in Sichuan Province Based on Gray-Relation Analysis

With the rapid development of electronic commerce, its impact on "transformation of the pattern of regional economic development, regional economic restructuring" is increasingly growing, causing research on the relationship between e-commerce and the regional industrial structure is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we firstly establish an index system to estimate the development of regional e-commerce, then use some industry-related indicators to make a comprehensive measure of regional industrial structure. On this basis, we use gray correlation theory to calculate the linkage between regional e-commerce development and industrial structure evolution processes. An empirical study of Sichuan Province conducted a discovery that e-commerce have a strong linkage between some industry, such as: scientific research, technical services and geological exploration industry, wholesale and retail industry, residential services and other services industry, manufacturing industry, accommodation and catering industry, renting and business services, and electricity, gas and water production and supply industry and so on. We can make use of the great development of e-commerce as an opportunity to accelerate the development of these industries.