Analyzing The Cause Of Exogenous Industry Clustering And Its Development Path

In Guangzhou recent years has witnessed the rapid development of automobile industry,which has become one of the pillar industries with tremendous potential of Guangzhou.While driving the economic development of Guangzhou,it has created rather influential clustering effect.However,as we review its development history in retrospect,we can see that the development of automobile industry has undergone prosperity after declining,with exogenous industry clustering as the major development mode of automobile industry.Therefore,this thesis has adopted automobile industry to explore the cause and development principle of exogenous industry clustering.Hopefully through the analysis experience can be imparted to other industries and regions as well.In this thesis,relevant theory and literature of industry clustering have been summarized and reviewed.With this basis,the connotationn of exogenous industry has been defined.Attempts have been made to conduct quantitative study on the exogenous features of the industry from such three dimensions as brand,capital and technology with comparison to the endogenous industry and features of endogenous industry clustering.Together with industry development of our country,some modes of exogenous industry clustering have been concluded.Then,automobile industry of Guangzhou has been applied in the case study to analyze the differences of market structure,behavior and performance resulting from different clustering modes,on the basis of which cause and development principle of industry clustering propelled by exogenous capital of our country has been discussed.Finally a power ring layer model based on exogenous capital,government,enterprise and industry environment has been formulated.In this model,the power of industry clustering has been divided into core layer,supporting layer and auxiliary layer.The three layers interact with each other,influencing the industry clustering in the region,which has theoretically accounted for phenomenon automobile industry clustering of Guangzhou.On the basis of theoretical analysis,this thesis has utilized relevant data of automobile industry of such cities as Guangzhou,Shanghai,Beijing and Wuhan from 1998 to 2007 to test the power ring layer model of exogenous industry clustering. According to the research,core layer factor is the most influential factor for automobile industry,followed by supporting layer factor and then auxiliary layer factor.From further factor score estimation,it has been found that,the scores representing the automobile industry development level of the four cities are ranked as followed,Guangzhou,Shanghai,Beijing and Wuhan.It has been shown from the outcome of the analysis that the exogenous capital and the learning capabilities of manufacturers categorized in the core layer factor,and the government policy in the supporting layer factor,and the cultural environment classified in the auxiliary layer factor have both created remarkably positive effect on the centralization of automobile industry.On the basis of theoretical and empirical research,this thesis has put forward the suggestion of improving the investment promotion and industry clustering policy of our country.Great efforts have to be made to foster the competitiveness of local core layer,that is,to pursue investment promotion policy favorable to automobile industry, the advanced manufacturing industry.Meanwhile,efforts have to be made to adopt supporting layer policy suitable for automobile industry clustering development.That is to say,government should play an active role to promote the industry development. Local government should formulate automobile industry policy in line with local circumstances.Last but not least,auxiliary layer factor should be improved from such two aspects as market and cultural environment,with emphasis laid on the development of social creditability,legal environment and education environment.