The Comparative Study On The International Competitiveness Of The SMEs Between China And Germany Based On The Value Chain

With the rapid growth of Chinese economy,SMEs become an important component of the national economy,also,they are playing more and more important role in increasing the national income,foreign trade,duty paying and job offering etc.More and more attention are going to focus on them.Under the background of economy globalization,we've got both opportunities and challenges for the SMEs to enter the international market,especial at the time when China enters WTO as well as the rush of overseas companies.So,to find a certain way to enhance the intertional competitiveness of our SMEs, also our country's surely become a key topic that we need to concentrate.Based on a great number of articles related to the international competitiveness and foreign SMEs, I select the value chain theory of Porter to be a the evaluation system for the international competitiveness , moreover make German SMEs which are reputated to be the invisible champions in the international market as a comparison, compared the international competitiveness between the SMEs in China and Germany.As to the analysis method, I took the way made by domestic scholars named Pan Zhen and Lu Minghong whose studied 457 SMEs in Suzhou for referenc. I subdevided 6 sections of value chain---producing,sales service and human resources etc into 16 comparative indexes, and compared the differences between them in each index,then got the aspects of which are influencing Chinese SMEs international competitiveness.Further more,I made some related policies and suggestions on the angle of both goverment & enterprises and economics & management to the disadvantages of Chinese SMEs . I then selected the well running enterprises of the two countries in the international market to be the analyzed objects ,still, covered the details of them in every relevant sections of the value chain ,to be the evidence support of this thesis.