Research On The Gradual Path Of Expanding Openness From Bonded Zone To Pilot Free Trade Zone In China

The path of gradual expansion of trade openness in China is essentially a path of institutional change. One of the main path is through the gradual path of institutional change from bonded area to pilot free trade zone, to serve the stage demand of the national openness strategy, and to drive country continues to expand trade openness and promote economic transformation and development.Although there are a lot of the experience of gradual expansion of trade openness in China, the main idea of the paper is:based on a background (new openness in China), a main thread (the path of gradual expanding trade openness), a special object (pilot free trade zone), a purpose (promote economic transformation through new gradual expansion of openness) to construct the whole research framework of researching in the path of gradual expansion of trade openness in China from bonded area to pilot free trade zone. Based on the existing research results of free trade zone (FTZ) and regional economic integration, and the main theoretical basis of krugman's spatial economic of combine the trinity of urban, regional and international trade, and the integrated use of the related theory of growth pole and point-axis theory, regional economic openness theory and institutional change theory, the paper discusses to increase institutional supply of trade openness and foster institutional growth pole of trade openness through the process of institutional change from bonded zone to pilot free trade zone, and optimize the spatial layout of regional openness economy through gradual radiant way of trade openness expansion, and build "institutional pilot pool" for deeping openness in China, and provide the effective gradual replicate path in accordance with the actual situation.The historical process of the path is:(1) to pilot and promote the model of bonded area in 1990 in order to coordinate the national strategy of foreign investment. (2) to pilot and promote the model of export processing zone in 2000 in order to coordinate the national strategy of expand export. (3) to pilot and promote the model of bonded logistics park in order to solve the problem of export tax rebate, and model of cross-border industrial zone in order to expand openness along the border in 2003. (4)to pilot and promote the model of bonded port area in 2005 in order to promote the integration of port area. (5) to pilot and promote the model of comprehensive bonded zone in 2006 in order to integrate and optimize the functions of various free trade zones. (6) to pilot the model of pilot free trade zone in 2013 in order to establish a new system of open economy:to establish China (shanghai) pilot free trade zone in 2013, to expand a pilot free trade zone in Shanghai to four pilot free trade zone along eastern seacoast in 2014, to increase seven pilot free trade zone in the the eastern, central and western regions from the coastal areas to the central and western regions by the replicate way of'1+N'.This is a typical radiate way of institutional change through gradual openness. One of purpose is to explore gradual path of institutional change through the construction from bonded area to pilot free trade zone, and to promote transformation of mode of trade development in China. Another purpose is through the gradual path of point-axis to integrate with prevailing rules of international trade and investment such as high standard'giant FTAs' of TPP, and replicate institutional change gradually throughout the country. The paper argues that the way of change with the new era characteristics can effectively lead China to gradually path of expanding openness.The paper includes seven chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction of the significance, framework, methods and possible innovation of the paper. In Chapter 2, on the basis of related theory and literature of gradual path of expanding openness in China, the paper summarizes main theoretical basis of the paper:krugman's theoretical model of the trinity of 'Area-City-International trade', and the related view of North's theory of institutional change. And it provides support of scientific economic theory for demonstrating the gradual path of expanding openness from bonded zone to pilot free trade zone in China. In chapter 3, on the basis of the analysis of different development modes of global free trade zone (FTZ), the paper discusses the selection of different paths and the experience of trade openness in the global free trade zone (FTZ) for gradual path of expanding trade openness in China.In Chapter 4, the paper discusses that the gradual path of expanding trade openness in China increases institutional supply of trade openness from the perspective of institutional change. Chapter 5 is the empirical analysis on the regional economic growth effect through the gradual path of expanding trade openness in China from bonded area to comprehensive bonded zone as institutional growth pole of trade openness. In chapter 6, on the basis of the experience and shortage of all kinds of free trade zone (FTZ) in China,the paper explores a new path of expanding trade openness gradually in the pilot free trade zone by the theory of point-axis. Chapter 7 is the conclusion of the whole paper.The key points of the paper are:(1) the gradual path of expanding trade openness in China from bonded area to pilot free trade zone, can increase institutional supply of trade openness, and form a institutional growth pole of trade openness, and promote regional economic growth. (2) the gradual path of expanding trade openness in China from bonded area to comprehensive bonded zone, has the characteristics of policy openness rely on preferential policies, and lead to the distortion problem caused by preferential policies.(3) the gradual path of expanding trade openness in China by pilot free trade zone, has the characteristics of institutional openness rely on institutional changes, and comply with the new trend of international investment and trade practice advocated by the high standard 'giant FTAs' negotiations of BIT and TPP, and help to solve the distortion problem caused by preferential policies of the original free trade zone (FTZ). (4) on the exploration of new gradual path of expanding trade openness in China, the paper suggests that through point-aixs practices of pilot free trade zone, it forms the T-type network structure, and can achieve the replicability goal of higher level openness, and promote China's regional economy transformation and development.