Reseach On The Comparisons Of The International Competitiveness Of Aquatic Product Between Fujian And Taiwan

There are many papers focusing on the issue of international competitiveness at home andabroad. But the research on international competitiveness of fishery is rare and hasn't formed amature theoretical framework yet. Fujian and Taiwan are major fisheries provinces. But they stayon different stages of economic development and have different industry structure and productionconditions. So it is of great importance to improve the international competitiveness. The signingof the ECFA in2010brought an unprecedented good opportunity for fishery development betweenFujian and Taiwan altogether. On the other hand, there are many complementarities of factorendowments and industrial structure between Fujian and Taiwan's fisheries. For these reasons, it isof theoretical and practical significance to estimate the international competitiveness of Fujian andTaiwan's aquatic product systematically and roundly and to investigate the mode of cooperationbetween Fujian and Taiwan based on this.This dissertation comprehensively and systematically researches on the internationalcompetitiveness of fishery in Fujian and Taiwan. On this basis, this paper also puts forward therecommendation of the fishery cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan. The main results are asfollows:(1) Putting forward the theoretical framework basing on extensively researching internationaltrade theory and industrial competitiveness as well as according to the actual situation of Fujianand Taiwan's fisheries. Moreover, this dissertation also analyzes the state of internationalcompetitiveness of Fujian and Taiwan's aquatic product according to this framework which iscomposed of competitive performance, competitive strength, competitive potential andcompetitive environment.(2) The dissertation comprehensively analyzes the aquatic product's production and tradecharacteristics of Fujian and Taiwan by detailed data. The following conclusions are drawn: firstly,the world trade of aquatic product outflows from developing countries into developed countriesand fresh aquatic product is playing an important role in international trade. Secondly, relying onthe development of aquaculture, Fujian's output of aquatic product is growing rapidly. The exportis rapidly growing and the export structure shows the features like equalization of products andreduction of regional concentration. Thirdly, deep-sea fishing industry is the major component of fisheries in Taiwan and its output and export value of aquatic product is growing slowly. Theexport structure shows the features like products concentrating in fresh fish products and reductionof regional concentration. Fourthly, Fujian and Taiwan aquatic products is different in tradeproduct and similar in market ones. The complementary relations are the inter-industry tradecomplementary relations.(3) Investigating the competitiveness of aquatic product in Fujian and Taiwan from marketshare, net export and export structure shows that the competitiveness of aquatic product in Fujianis continuously enhancing and there are more and more species of aquatic product withcompetitive advantage, which in Taiwan is declining and the species with competitive advantage isdecreasing, the species with competitive advantage in Taiwan is mainly fish product.(4) Investigating the directly determinant factors to international competitiveness of aquaticproduct in Fujian and Taiwan from international prices and product quality shows that thecompetitive advantage of price is gradually lost in Fujian and the advantage is increasinglyenhanced in Taiwan; the advantage of quality is more and more obvious in Fujian and is losing inTaiwan.(5) The dissertation analyzes the impact of factors on international competitiveness of aquaticproduct in Fujian and Taiwan by using quantitative analysis together with econometric analysis,Porter theory as a guide, informative and authoritative data. The result shows that the developmentof related and support industries, accession to the WTO and the international market demandproduces a positive impact on competitiveness of aquatic product in Fujian and Taiwan. Primaryfactor of production, the internal market demand and industrial structure hinders enhancement ofTaiwan's international competitiveness of aquatic product. At the same time, the level oftechnology, human capital and the level of safety management of aquatic product hindersenhancement of Fujian's international competitiveness of aquatic product.(6) Overall, the international competitiveness of aquatic product in Fujian is stronger thanTaiwan. The result is due to different industrial structure of fishery between them. There isstronger control on production of aquaculture than offshore fishing. So there are more aquaticspecies from aquaculture. At the same time, aquaculture is convenient for deep processing toaquatic product which causes more diversified aquatic products. So adjusting product structure ismore immediate and effective in Fujian than in Taiwan. Because of this, Fujian can enhance the price and quality of aquatic product. And the main obstruction of adjusting structure of Taiwan isthe scarcity of nature resources.(7)The result of the full dissertation shows that there is a broad space for cooperation infishery between Fujian and Taiwan: Firstly, there is a strong inter-industry trade complementaryrelationship between Fujian and Taiwan's aquatic product. Secondly, Fujian is better than Taiwanin terms of basic factors of fisheries while Taiwan is better than Fujian in terms of advancedfactors. So there is strong complementary relationship between Fujian and Taiwan. Thirdly,because of the difference of economic development levels between Fujian and Taiwan, theconsumers of Fujian pay more attention to the quantity of aquatic products while consumers inTaiwan pay more attention on the quality and flavor of aquatic products. So there iscomplementary relationship in level of consumption between Fujian and Taiwan. Fourthly,Aquatic production in Fujian was dominated by agriculture fisheries and it was dominated bydeep-sea fishing industry in Taiwan. So there is complementary relationship in industrial structurebetween Fujian and Taiwan.(8) At last, according to the previous findings, this paper puts forward suggestions to enhanceinternational competitiveness of aquatic product in Fujian and Taiwan respectively. Someproposals are put forward to enhance the international competitiveness of aquatic product inFujian and Taiwan under the background of ECFA, such as the cooperation of trade of aquaticproduct, aquaculture, offshore fishing, deep-sea fishing industry, seafood processing industry,fishery investment and fisheries personal training and so on.(9) The main innovations of this study are: firstly, building a relatively complete theoreticalframework of the competitiveness of aquatic product; secondly, according to Porter "nationaldiamond" model, making econometric analysis (principal components regression) on four maininfluencing factors to competitiveness of aquatic product; thirdly, comparatively studying the state,impact factors and sizes of factors to competitiveness of aquatic product of two regions whichhave big gaps in economic development, factors of production, industrial structure but withgeographical proximity; forthly, investigating cooperation mode of fisheries in one country butdifferent tariff zone.