Research On Cross-border Economic Cooperation Of Frontier Area

With the rapid development of economic globalization and regional economic integration, regional economic cooperation has become a facing in the world. Cross-border economic cooperation is the more primitive forms of economic cooperation the process of regional economic integration. And it is also one of the patterns about opening up the development of inland border area. At present, scholars of the theory of cross-border economic cooperation is lake of systematic arrangement, so their theoretical research is still lagging behind the practice. Meanwhile, as a bridgehead of China-Russia economic and trade cooperation, it is full of strategic importance to carry out cross-border economic cooperation.Based on this background and purpose, this paper discusses the basic theory of cross-border economic cooperation issues, analyzes the cross-border economic cooperation Situation of Suifenhe, and puts strategic propose about the existence of its barriers. The thesis is divided into the following sections.The basic theory of cross-border economic cooperation is mainly discussed in the first section. By means of analyzing the essence of economic integration the definition and features of sub-regional economic cooperation, this thesis works out the connotation of cross-border economic cooperation—that is—in order to give play to the potential advantages in border areas. Make a difference in the lagging economic development in hinter lands, countries geographically in the neighborhood should develop various aspects of economic cooperation like trade, processing, investment, technology, labor service and trip within the scope of border cities and hinter lands and particular districts. The cooperation can be put into practice through the coordination of bilateral or multilateral policy and mutual agreement on cooperating development.In nature, cross-border economic cooperation is sub-regional economic cooperation, but relatively the early stage and form in the development of sub-regional economic cooperation. The goal of cross-border economic cooperation can be divided into political objectives and economic objectives wholes made and type differentiate in the light of different perspectives.Then, this paper credit elaborated the basic theory which related to the cross-border economic cooperation, and tried to explicate the basic theory on terse view of external constraints, completely and geographic. The economic development of a nation or region was affected by the effect of economic activity of neighboring countries define to the spillover effect. Spillover effect is a variable which reflected the economic activities by neighboring countries in a state or region, and also is a performance about the external effects of economic activity of neighboring countries in their country, if the relative economic size of neighbors is more significant; if the opening extent is more obvious between their country and neighboring countries, the spillover effect will be higher. Namely, spillover effects are the main external constraint which affects the national or regional economic development.Geographical advantages, resource endowments and complementary industries are a important factor which affect a region involved in cross-border economic cooperation. If geographical distance is farther between countries, the costs of transport and transaction should be higher at flow of goods and factors of production in every country. Then the advantages of cross-border economic cooperation are more obvious. The difference and the complementarities of resources endowments and industrial structure are stronger in two countries and their relevant areas, the relevant regions to actively participate in cross-border economic cooperation are more intense. This is because each able to become close division of labor relations, while they gains economic benefits about specialized division of labor between regions.The second section mainly analyzes the status of cross-border economic cooperation of Suifenhe. Based on the data descriptive statistics which came from the experience about foreign trade and economic cooperation of Suifenhe. So this paper reached the characteristics on foreign trade and economic cooperation of state-owned enterprises continued to decline in the import and export. Trade has been expanding with Russia that caused the volume of annual growth at Suifenhe port. Border trade is still the main form of trade, and the general trade grew faster and develop to the dominant position gradually; the same time, processing trade develops rapidly. The commodities of trade import and export are stable; the imports are mainly made from capitals goods, the export are mainly made from consumer goods. Foreign economic and technological cooperation and foreign small and volatile. At the same time, expanding the field of external cooperation.The existing development pattern of cross-border economic cooperation in Suifenhe is based on Sui-Bo trade complex, Suifenhe comprehensive Free Trade Zone, the outside of Suifenhe industrial park, build the three major industrial system on trade, tourism, export processing, and inter-investment cooperation through developing the border trade with Russia, business in the cooperation of local-level in the important areas of economic, trade, logistics and warehousing, logging and wood processing, cross-border agricultural, labor export to Russia, and the territory of overseas processing trade and cultural exchange with Russia, and push off the development of society and economic at all aspects.The barriers of cross-border economic cooperation and foreign economic cooperation in Suifenhe have four aspects:(1)the restrict of infrastructure construction including the bottlenecks of channel capacity, and the construction of the park is still in infancy; (2)trade and economic cooperation including the main market of trade and economic cooperation, single-commodity structure of trade, small scale of investment cooperation, yet in the present has form a service system of the bilateral trade; (3)system including the soft constraints of mechanism in cross-border economic cooperation, local government-led cooperation did not change the situation; (4)Russia's economic and environment, including frequent changes in its adjustments of economic policy, and the international competition is increasing with the market of Russia's Far East, and the investment environment didn't make the best choice for business in the Far East.The third section mainly proposed the countermeasures of cross-border economic cooperation of Suifenhe. Across to many problems among cross-border economic cooperation and foreign economic cooperation of Suifenhe, this paper proposed four measures from a strategic perspective of our government:(1)To actively coordinate with the Russian Federal Government and relevant developments, we should build up cooperation platform between China and Russia quickly. (2)In policy, Suifenhe should support and nurture the main of foreign trade, change the patterns of trade, and optimize the structure of trade. (3)To implement the park development strategy firstly is a pragmatic choice of cross-border economic cooperation of Suifenhe across to enhancing the features of gathering and radiation driven in inside and outside the park, particularly the comprehensive bonded zone. (4)Based on the original Russian Sui-Bo Trade Complex and Suifenhe comprehensive Free Trade Zone, building new Russian Sui-Bo cross-border trade and economic cooperation zone, and try to solve the existing problems under the new model of cross-border economic cooperation.