Abstract: Based on provincial-level panel data in China from 2013 to 2022, the fixed effects model, intermediary effects model, and threshold effects model were used to empirically test the impact and mechanism of digital rural construction on agricultural economic resilience. The results showed that the digital rural construction had a positive promoting effect on the resilience of agricultural economy, which still held true after robustness testing. The digital rural construction enhanced the resilience of agricultural economy by promoting agricultural infrastructure construction and regional economic development. Compared to the main grain producing areas and high resilience areas, the effect of digital rural construction on empowering agricultural economic resilience in non-grain producing areas and low resilience areas was relatively weak. Based on this, it was recommended to continue promoting the construction of digital rural areas, leverage the driving role of agricultural infrastructure and regional economic development, and take multiple measures to enhance the resilience of agricultural economy, in order to lay the foundation for building China into an agricultural powerhouse.

Key words: digital rural construction, agricultural economic resilience, agricultural infrastructure, regional economic development, nonlinear effect