Research Of Anhui's Undertaking The Transfer Of Industries In The Yangtze River Delta From The Perspective Of Leap-forward Development Strategy

For the overall economic development of Anhui, it is very useful to undertake the transfer of industries in the Yangtze River Delta. It will help fill the investment gap, expand the industrial scale, and accelerate the industrial upgrading and the technological improvement. It, however, is unrealistic to expect the overnight effect in one move on the leap-forward development of Anhui. Most of the transfer industries lie in the manufacturing sector, the bottom of the value chain, and in the mature stage of industry life cycle. If the transfer is undertaken blindly and indiscriminately on a large scale, it will increase the pressure on the undertaker in its resources and environment, thus resulting in the crowding-out effect, and inhibiting the development of new industries of the undertaker. Also it may bring the great risk of the systemic withdrawal to the industry of the undertaker, for it will come into its recession in the future. Therefore, a thorough research is necessary by combining the background of industrial upgrading and transfer in the Yangtze River Delta, and the reality of current economic development of Anhui. The research will focus on the various advantages and disadvantages of industrial transfer. On this basis, a comprehensive, systematic and scientific undertaking strategy will be made. According to the aim, the research is from the perspective of achieving leap-forward development strategy of Anhui. It employs some relevant theories and ideas such as regional economics, development economics and industrial economics and analyses systematically the mechanism, the comparative advantage, performance and risk of the industrial undertaking and transfer in the Yangtze River Delta(Anhui) both in theory and in practice. Furthermore, based on the investigation of the internal regional difference in Anhui, of the development potential, and of the development orientation, and on the probe into the nature, the task, and the approaches of the leap-forward development strategy of Anhui, it offers some advice for policy decision in industry selection, mode selection, layout selection of the undertaking during the process of the industrial transfer of Anhui. This article consists of seven parts:Chapter I introduces the current situation of the industrial transfer of Anhui, and from this, puts forth the topic of this research. Furthermore, it reviews and comments on the existing relevant research achievements, explaining the logical framework, technical line, chapter arrangement, and the main innovations of the research. Chapter II reviews systematically the relevant theoretical basis involved with the research, of the regional division of labor and of the industry transfer between regions, and introduces in detail the regional division theory of labor, industrial location theory and the background of proposing the theory of the industry transfer, its main contents, and limitations.Chapterâ…¢focuses on the evolution and the current situation of the regional cooperative relationship in the division of labor in the Yangtze River Delta, and analyses the trend of the regional economic development of the area, its main difficulties and its relationship with the industry transfer; Chapterâ…£introduces mainly the economic connections of Anhui with the Yangtze River Delta and its history of participation in the regional division of the Yangtze River Delta. The section discusses the basic requirements of Anhui undertaking the gradient industry transfer of the Yangtze River Delta, and analyses the comparative advantages of this undertaking. Chapter V concentrates on the current status of the economic development in Anhui, the gap with the neighboring provinces, and the main reasons of the relative lagging. It analyses the impact of the undertaking on Anhui's economical development, and studies the economic performance in this undertaking.Chapter VI analyses mainly the advantages and disadvantages of the undertaking, and discusses the types of industry transfer, and the relationship between the undertaking mode and the differences among the undertaking regions. It explores the nature and the ways of achieving the leap-forward development of Anhui, states the role of undertaking the industry transfer of the Yangtze River Delta in the strategy of Anhui's leap-forward development, and then, based on the overall evaluation of the economic development potential of different areas in Anhui, clarifies systematically the tactics of Anhui undertaking the industry transfer. Chapter VII summarizes the main conclusions of this research, and sets forth the theory and policy implications of the research, the major problems and limitations, and then opens a prospect for the further study in the future. The main conclusions of this research are as follows:(1) Long rapid development and the economic integration has accumulated enormous economic power for the region of the Yangtze River Delta, spurring the quickening of the regional integration process and the forming of the diverse collaboration-division relationship, but many difficulties are beginning to show, such as the tight supply of resources, serious environmental pollution, the convergence of industry structure, rising industry costs, increasing competitive pressure, and so on. During the regional economic development of the Yangtze River Delta and the evolution of the collaboration-division relationship, an inevitable result is achieving the internal industry upgrading with accelerating the outward transfer of industries. (2) The "center-outer" relationship between Anhui and the region of the Yangtze River Delta is apparent, with a strong complementary feature in the industrial structure. A significant gradient difference exists among many industries. Moreover, compared to other neighboring provinces, in undertaking the industry transfer of the Yangtze River Delta, Anhui enjoys remarkable overall advantages:a unique and unparalleled geographical location, a complete industry system, and an effective industrial support system. (3) Anhui's undertaking the industry transfer of the Yangtze River Delta has been in good shape:large-scale industry transfer has already started, with the expanding of the investment scale. The industry transfer also spurs on the flowing of international capital into Anhui. Positive studies also show that there is a long stable balanced relationship between undertaking the industry transfer of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic growth of Anhui, promoting greatly the growth of GDP in Anhui. At present, however, the undertaking has no remarkable effect on the technological progress in Anhui. (4) Anhui's undertaking the industry transfer of the Yangtze River Delta should be divided into three levels, and different levels of the region should have different undertaking purpose, methods and industries choice. In particular, industrial transfer demonstration region of the city-cluster along the Yangtze River in Anhui should be built into the growth pole of Anhui's economic development, the backbone of industrialization and urbanization, and the country's major base of advanced manufacturing and modern service industry. In addition, it is very important to properly handle relationship between the industrial transfer demonstration region of the city-cluster along the Yangtze River in Anhui and Hefei-Wuhu-Bengbu comprehensive innovation experimental zone, making the two strategics supplement each other, and promoting Anhui's economic development rapidly.