Chinese Equipment Manufacturing Industry, Trade Protection And Market Competition

The objective of this dissertation is to study how to implement effective trade protection in order to promote the development of China equipment manufacturing industry under open economic condition.It is very important to develop equipment manufacturing industry for the progress of industrialization and enhancement of the comprehensive and international competitiveness of China. After more than 50 years development, equipment manufacturing industry achieved quite big scale and great strength, becoming as the mainstay of China economy. But compared with that of developed countries, there is a big gap still existed, including backward in technology, small firm scale and weakness in competitiveness, etc.. China equipment manufacturing industry faces a good opportunities as well as strong challenges, along with the growth of China economy and gradually opening to the outside world.Industry development closely relates to foreign trade and its policy. The industrialization of all developed countries has been realized under the condition of implementing trade protection policy. So this dissertation selects the angle of trade protection and related market competition to study the development of China Equipment manufacturing industry. The trade protection theories have been evolved from traditional infant industry argument to modern strategic trade policy (STP) which is based on economies of scale and imperfect competition. Although a lot of studies on trade protection conducted, it is necessary and valuable to further explore deeply and systematically how to implement an effective protection under open economic condition which the past studies are general. So the study of this dissertation is with theoretical and practical significance.The dissertation adopts the method of theoretical analysis together with case studies. The international trade theory, competitive advantages theory and industrial organization theory have been applied, and China power generation equipment manufacturing industry, shipbuilding industry and automobile industry, etc. have been selected for case studies.