Research On The Regional Spread Of Industries In East Asia

After World Warâ…¡, under the bless of the United States, East Asia has experienced three waves of the spread of industries, which were oriented by Japan's scrap-and-build industrial restructuring. Along with the spread of industries in East Asia, the economies in East Asia began their industrialization in succession, created the miracle of growth one after another, and the whole region developed in the geese-flying way. But since the mid and late 1980's, the form of the spread of industries in East Asia has changed, the spread in the form of production processes and working procedures rose, the regional production networks grew up.Since the spread of industries in East Asia run through the regional development, so the research on this issue mainly existed in the research on the regional industrial structure, regional development pattern, regional division of labor and the so on. In this dissertation, the author made a fearless challenge, rethinking this issue under the much more general framework, tried to explain this issue in a brand new way. The author reviewed the research on the international spread of industries, from the new perspectives and with the new analytical tools, summarized the relative empirical indices, then with this new thinking method the author analyzed the reasons for the evolution of the spread of industries in East Asia, which is the main innovation of this dissertation.The main content of this dissertation is as following:Chapter one introduction brought forward the issue, summarized the literatures, and introduced the research objects, frame work, research method and the innovations and shortcomings. The emergence of the new situation in East Asia, the development of the new driving force and the emergence of the new theories make the author think about the new challenges to the spread of industries in East Asia. In this dissertation after the review of the literatures on the international spread of industries, the author found the main problems of the current research on this issue, then reviewed the relative research on this issue of East Asia. The changes of the real world, the current research situation together with the development of the relative theories stimulated the author to make the research according to the these two interlaced logics, one of which is from theory to case study then back to theory, another is from historical review to analysis of the current situation then to the expectation of the future.Chapter two reviewed the formation and evolution of the spread of industries in East Asia. At first the author reviewed the history of the spread of industries in East Asia: after World Warâ…¡, along with Japan's scrap-and-rebuild restructuring and its expansion of the capital in Japan, East Asia experienced there waves of the spread of industries, formed the"flying geese pattern"and created the East Asian Miracle. Then the author summarized the theory of the"flying geese pattern"from the perspective of the origin, development and the spread, and also discussed the nature of the pattern and its relationship with the East Asia Pattern. At last the author summarized the main characters of the spread of industries in East Asia, and introduced its relationships with regional production networks in East Asia.Chapter three and Chapter four back to the starting point discussed the more general issue-international spread of industries.Chapter three reviewed the waves of the international spread of industries, and generalized the concept of the international spread of industries. After comparing with other relative concepts, the author made it clear on the research category of the international spread of industries. Then the author summarized the relative research from Chinese researchers, and concluded the nature of the international spread of industries. The author also classified the international spread of industries according to different kind of standards to reflect the characters roundly.Chapter four tried to build up an analytical frame work. The blind spot of the new classical economics made the researchers pay less attention to the international spread of industries issue, but the new growth theory, the new trade theory and the new geographical theory provided new perspectives to this issue. In this chapter, the author put forward the way to analyze the issue, and introduced the relative models and empirical indices, which is the main innovation of this dissertation.Chapter five discussed the reasons for the evolution of the spread of industries. At first using the logic put forward in the Chapter four, the author made a theoretical analysis from the five following levels-product, enterprise, industry, nation, region and the world. Then the author made the empirical analysis, from the perspective of international trade, FDI and the space.Chapter six analyzed the main effects of the spread of industries in East Asia. The analysis includes global and regional these two aspects, mainly involved the following contents: its effects on the global economic growth and its relation with the global economic imbalance; its effects on the taking-off of the East Asian economy and its relationship with the regional integration in East Asia. The spread of industries in East Asia directly affected the formation and the changes of the regional division of labor, affected the adjustment and upgrading of the industrial structure and even affected the regional and global growth and development. It is very significant to analyze these effects, predict the related problems and put forward the countermeasures.Chapter seven analyzed the status and functions of China in East Asian spread of industries. As the new driving force, China plays an important role in the regional spread of industries. From the"flock-breaking panda"to the new hinge of the"new triangular trade", the formation of its"world workshop"status and the following trade frictions, we can analyze all these issues from the perspective of the spread of industries.