Study On Upgrading Of Ceramic Industrial Cluster From The View Of Global Value Chain

Global economic integration and the increasingly deepening in the international labor division have promoted the formation and development of ceramic industrial cluster in China. Ceramic industrial clusters in Guangdong,Shandong,and Fujian etc have a positive impetus on the local and national economic growth,employment,exports and industrial upgrading.Faced with the opportunities and challenges of globalization,Ceramic industrial cluster in China should have an active interaction with global ceramics-producing networks,continuously innovate and upgrade.Global value chain,the theoretical tool provides a new thinking for ceramic industrial cluster to participate in global competition.First of all,the thesis discusses global value chain theory and industrial cluster theory in the perspective of globalization.Then,according to relative positions of the enterprises in the perspective of global value chain,it classifies local industrial clusters into three types: controlled industrial cluster,non-controlled leading industrial cluster and network industrial cluster.In accordance with the types of industrial clusters,different ways and approaches to upgrading in global value chains embedded should be adopted.Secondly,the thesis,analyzes the present development of clusters,attributes and status of embedded global ceramics value chain,incorporating China's ceramic industry clusters into the analytical framework of global value chain.Through a detailed analysis of daily-use ceramics and building ceramics,the two representatives species,the thesis holds that China's ceramic industry clusters are in the links of manufacturing and OEM.Two approaches to achieve upgrading in ceramic industrial clusters:by through technological innovation,ceramic industrial clusters upgrade to the research and development links,the upstream ceramic value chain;by accumulation of OEM's own strength,accept the technology proliferation of transnational corporations,then gradually upgrade OEM to OBM.However,the two upgrading approaches are confronted with the same obstacles:transnational corporations blockade China's ceramics enterprises which are in low end of the value chain.On the base of Game Analysis, the thesis concludes that regardless of the huge gap between China's ceramic enterprises and multinational corporations in strength,multinational enterprises will impede the upgrading breakthrough of China's ceramics.The upgrading breakthrough of China's ceramics needs ceramics enterprises' efforts and the assistance from the government.In view of the facts above, the thesis put forward policy recommendations from government level and enterprises level respectively,assumes that commencing from intellectual property protection,the support from financial policy,enterprise culture cultivation and the introduction of advanced talents etc,the government and enterprises can provide the impetus to the upgrading of China's ceramic industrial cluster.Lastly,the thesis makes an empirical analysis of Zibo ceramic industry cluster,combining two typical cases of Huaguang ceramics and Futai ceramics,demonstrates the two upgrading approaches of China's ceramic industry cluster:one approach is to upgrade to research and development links of value chain;the other one is to innovate the independent brands from OEM to OBM..In summary,by adopting global value chain,the emerging theoretical tool,the thesis expands the vision of local industrial clusters upgrading,particularly the vision of China's ceramic industry cluster upgrading.By the analysis of Zibo ceramic industry cluster integrating into the global value chain to participate in the international division of labor,the thesis illustrates the general laws in the embedded model of local industrial cluster and industrial upgrading.