The Studies Of Structural Upgrading Of China's Processing Trade Under International Intra-product Specialization

During the 30 years of reform and opening up, processing trade in China has had a boom development, plays a very important role in our foreign trade and has made great contribution to our economic growth and development. But its limitation emerges day by day. Processing trade is the important trade way of our country's participation into international division of labor. Our country still be placed in a low position in international division of labor with low added value, which leads to our processing trade's layer of structure is lowly, so our trade benefit is low. Though, our country's processing trade structure keeps optimizing, in essence, our whole competitive advantage is still in the low technical labor-intensive products or procedures, and the core technique together with manufacturing level is still low, so it is necessary to upgrade our processing trade structure further.To upgrade the structure of our processing trade needs promote our country's position in international division of labor. At present, the international division of labor is no longer limited to inter-industry, inter-product, but enters the inside of the same product more and more, and divides the work in different links of the same product division chain. This new detailed form of international division of labor is beneficial for countries to play comparative advantage in different procedures of the same product, which improves resource allocation efficiency on global scale, promotes technical progress, push the process of economic globalization. This essay states that, to some extent, the intra-product specialization can promote the structural upgrading of one country's processing trade.Based on this, this paper researches the problem of structural upgrading of our country's processing trade from the intra-product specialization perspective, which can make us correctly understand our position in intra-product specialization, fundamentally find the upgrading direction of intra-product specialization's layer, and routes along which our processing trade should upgrade.First, this paper sets up a model on the basis of the analysis of the intra-product specialization theory, and from developing country's angle, puts the focus on the discussion of the change of one country's trade benefit in the process of the upgrading of intra-product specialization's layer, and finds out the direction of upgrading. The conclusion indicates that, the more a developing country participates into capital-intensive and technique-intensive products, can climb the ladder of intra-product specialization and enter the higher capital-intensive and technique-intensive procedures, and the more the country can improve its technique through imported products'technique spillover, the more this country will acquire trade benefit. Then under the instruction of theoretical analysis this paper studies the problem of structural upgrading of our processing trade, systemically puts forward three routes, along which our processing trade should upgrade: the upgrading of processing trade products; the advancement of processing trade products in production link; the upgrading of broad-sense intra-product specialization chain. At last, this paper normatively analyzes the factors that influence the structural upgrading of our country's processing trade from intra-product angle, and proposes the related countermeasures , so as to reach the purpose of the study, that is, the guidance of theory to practice.