Foreign Openness And Industrial Structure

Under the background of the open economy, a country's industrial structure optimization depends on international factors, especially the impact of the success factors of the developed market economies. Opening not only is the promote power of China's economic growth, but also is the main reason of the structure updating. Since three decades of reform and opening up, China's participation in the international division of labor becomes deeper and broader. The conditions of the increasing and upgrading of industrial structure become more open, too. In an open economy, all the factors that affect economic development will have an impact on a country's industrial structure, but the foreign direct investment, import and export of goods is the most important external factors of the industrial structure changes.Firstly, this thesis introduces the theory of industrial structure's evolution, the relationship between foreign trade (including imports and exports) and the industrial structure, relationship between foreign direct investment and industrial structure.Thus, the thesis points out the lack of research.Secondly, using the basic idea of the Dixit and Stiglitz monopolistic competition model (D-S model), the thesis analyzes of the changes between the opening and the industrial structure. And comprehensive index to measure the opening to the outside world as well as to measure the indicators of the Industrial Structure of the introduction and selection.Then, from the national and provincial level, the thesis analyzes the relationship between economy openness and the industrial structure. At the national level, the selection of the1985-2010year China's Industrial Structure Index (Moore index), as well as opening up the index of the cointegration test, error correction model and Granger causality test, impulse response function and variance decomposition method of long-run equilibrium relationship between the opening and the industrial structure. The results show that the development of an open economy will improve Industrial Structure, at the same time the ecomomy openess and the Industrial Structure constitute unidirectional granger causality.At the regional level, using the traditional statistical indicators and the GINI coefficient, the generalized entropy, the Theil entropy, the thesis analyzes the absolute and relative differences of the Chinese economy openness and the industrial structure in the space.Simultaneously, from various angles the thesis tests the spatial characteristics of the Chinese economy openness and the industrial structure. From the global correlation, local autocorrelation and two-dimensional local correlation, the thesis estimates autocorrelation test of the Chinese economy openness. To the spatial convergence study of the economy openess'index, mainly from the two angle measurement the σ convergence and space conditions convergence, the thesis studies have shown that the openess'index demonstrates the convergence trend in recent years. It indicates the gap of the degree of the provincial economy openness will reduce. Using the data of from2001to2010, the thesis studies the spatial correlation between Chinese economy openess and the industrial structure. The conclusion shows the economy openness will promote the adjustment of industrial structure, especially in the western region. But the adjustment of industrial structure focuses on the high-class problems, also taking into account the reasonableness. We must understand foreign trade, international factor mobility, economic growth, the change of factor endowments, the relationship between the factor endowments and industrial structure clearly. Facing the problem of the adjustment of industrial structure, we must adopt dynamic principles and strategic vision.Finally, the thesis presents the direction of further research.