A Study On Concentration Of Information Industry In Chongqing

Information industry, which is the base of the knowledge economics, is a strategic industry which not only changes the form of social economics and the ways of people living, but also accelerates the adjustment of industry structures and the rapid development of economics. Information industry in the developed countries totally contributes 60% of the GDP nowadays and it has become the largest industry in 21st century all over the world. Information industry in China has been the largest industry for 4 years and contributes the largest to the GDP and then become the fundamental industry. In 2003, the sales income doubled compared to 2000 and the total scale is the 3rd in the world.Even though information industry develops fast, the research on it appears to be slow. There are still controversial ideas about the definition and scale of the information industry, the study on the industrial organization of the information industry just begins, and now there is no fundamental study on the market structure of information industry, including Concentration.This thesis gives a new definition on the concept and category of information industry and unites the divergence on the theory through arranging and supplement of current studies. Then the thesis uses the statistics criterion of Ministry of Information Industry of China to compare the concentration of the information industry in Chongqing and China and the relationship of concentration and profit rate. It also uses the theory of industrial organization to comparatively describe and explain the market structures, performance and relationships of the information industry in Chongqing and China.This thesis considers that information industry could provide contents and service of information and is a service industry which aims at the yielding, collecting, arranging and transmitting of the information. Its scale includes information service industry and information content industry and it also can put information equipment manufacturing into the broad sense definition of information industry if considers the need of the situation in China and the study of statistics.According to the current governmental statistics, the comparatively analytical results of concentration and the relationship between the concentration and profit rate show that: I. Information manufacture industry in Chongqing is regarded as lowly concentration competitive industry in 2001 and lowly concentration oligopolistic industry in 2002;Software industry in Chongqing is regarded as lowly concentration competitive industry in both 2001 and 2002. Comparatively,Information manufacture industry in China is atomic industry or dispersive competition industry and software industry in China is lowly concentration competitive industry.II. Contrary to that of information manufacture industry in China,there is no positive correlation between concentration and profit rate in information industry in Chongqing .III. Contrary to that of software industry, there is positive correlation between enterprise scale and profit rate in information manufacture industry in Chongqing.The conclusion above shows that though market structure of information industry in Chongqing is same to that in China, the correlation neither between concentration and profit rate nor between enterprise scale and profit rate is abnormal. The reason lies in the break of market structure and performance, which caused by nonstandard market economy with non-efficient competition and government factors.