Research On International Competitiveness Of Chinese Wood Furniture Industry

Since 1980's, the traditional furniture exports of large countries such as Italian, Germany, Canada, the United States, furniture production and exports gradually shrunk in size, furniture production gradually transfers to other countries in Europe, to the close of consumption, labor is relatively cheap transfer, such as Poland and Mexico; in Asia, to the factors of production, more prosperous developing countries such as China, Malaysia, Vietnam and so on. Chinese furniture manufacturers are increasingly becoming the center of the world.Because of a huge consumer market to attract foreign investment landing, a serious blow to the domestic wood furniture market intensified competition in the market; and with the substantial increase in exports, in view of anti-dumping, trade barriers of the Chinese wood furniture, Green trade friction problems have been the emergence and cause serious obstruction to Chinese wood furniture exports. With Chinese wood furniture industry rapidly growing, Chinese wood furniture industry constraints of sustainable development is also highlighted by the bottleneck.In order to enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry, achieving sustainable development and meeting people wood furniture growing needs produced by the national economic construction and social development, the research of international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry must be deepen, with objectively evaluating the status and the future trend of international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry. The main factors of international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry and their influence on the size must be studied deeply, so that policy-making can be based on it.In this study, by using the deterioration of export advantage index, the market share index, revealed comparative advantage index and a constant market share model, changes in the international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry are in-depth quantitative analyzed with comparison of Canada, Germany, Italy, Malaysia and the United States; The following conclusions are: from angle of comparison of the wood furniture industry of various countries in general, Chinese wood furniture industry has a strong international competitiveness, enhancing competitiveness faster especially after the accession to the WTO; Italy, Malaysia and China belong to the same level of competitiveness levels, and has stronger competitiveness than Germany, Canada and the United States. In view of wood furniture products, the Chinese wood bedroom furniture (HS940340) is the fastest growing on the level of the competitiveness and highly competitive; Relatively weak competitiveness are chairs of wood frame with padded (HS940161), and Italian is at the absolute competitive advantage on the product.This study guided by Porter's Theory, using detailed and authoritative data, the influencing factors of international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry are been compared with other countries, finding that Chinese wood furniture industry has a certain endowment of forest resources and labor advantages of low wages cost, but the quality of the labor force is not high, the performance of the whole society at the low labor productivity, education and health expenditures low, the lack of advanced technology, such as advanced workers; Through empirical analysis, China's huge domestic market demand plays an important role in cultivation and enhancement of international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry; Chinese artificial afforestation area is first of the world, but low levels of forest certification; Chinese wood-based panel production in the world, but not strong; Chinese furniture hardware industry, although the international competitiveness of rising, but compared with foreign advanced level, process technology and equipment is still relatively backward. Such is also for other relative and supporting industries.Chinese wood furniture market is highly competitive, but enterprises small scale and industrial concentration low and lack of personality style. Rising international oil prices has reduced the advantages of cheap labor, so as to reduce international competitiveness of Chinese wood furniture industry; the premium of renminbi exchange rate is disadvantage to the export of wood furniture.The main innovation of this study have two points: one is using method of panel data model, derived the size of the factors under the direction of Porter's theory; and the second is by using of cointegration theory, relationship between demand conditions of Chinese wood furniture industry and international competitiveness is in the empirical cointegration analysis, we find that the variable"logexv"(the natural logarithm of wood furniture exports) and the independent variables (population"ppu" and"gdpp"GDP per capita) exist the cointegration relations between them, i.e. there is a long-term stability balanced relationship existed in them.The main feature of this study is the use of many charts, so that the presentation is clear.