Technical Efficiency And Technical Progress: An Empirical Analysis To China's Car Industry

Automobile industry is a technology-intensive, capital-intensive and high value-added industry ,it becomes a leading industry which stimulates the economic growth obviously. Although the number of China's auto output has increased rapidly, the car industry developed in an environment which lacked of adequate market competition .It is growing from a low technological gap and the protection of Infant industry policy. After China entering WTO, the custom tax and tariff rate decreased gradually to protect the automotive industry. The period from 1999 to 2002 can be seen the preparing period, the period from 2002 to 2005 can be seen the accommodating period, and the period from 2005 to 2008 can be seen the globalization period. During the period, did the efficiency of the car industry rise with the outputs? What about the technical progress & Malmquist productivity indexes of China's car industry? Are there any factors affect the car companies'efficiency? The analysis of inherent factor of technical progress showed that due to the less of introduction of technology and slow in absorption, enterprises lack core technologies and R & D investment and lack the introduction and training of Technical Personnel, all those cause the result of slow technical progress. At the same time, The regression results of technical progress factors show that import tariffs of cars market share, business fixed capital investment and GDP growth all have the relation with technological progress. But the pre-scale of the car enterprises and import tariffs on car parts have the negative effect on technological progress.This paper is just an exploration work and has many deficiencies in theoretical support and data, with limited time and energy.