China Trade And Industry Competitiveness

Since reform and opening to the outside world, the scale of China's foreign trade has expanded rapidly and the structure of export commodities has improved continually. To a certain extent, this reflects the fact that China's trade industry competitiveness has enhanced. But this cannot overall and objectively show the present situation of our trade industry competitiveness. Therefore, this dissertation will try to solve the problem through establishing the evaluation index system, calculating, analyzing its determinants. The concrete framework is as the follows.The first chapter is an introduction. It mainly reviews the situation of the study on international competitiveness home and abroad and briefly illustrates the selection of the research subject, the determination of the research train of thought, the adoption of the method of research and so on.The second chapter is the theory of industry international competitiveness. It introduces some representative theoretical achievements in the study of industry international competitiveness. It also briefly appraises their achievements and their research values to this dissertation.The third chapter is trade industry competitiveness and its determinants. On the basis of making clear the definition of the trade industry competitiveness, it builds a set of index system which uses the import and export data to evaluate the trade industry competitiveness. The system divides into three first-lever indices, which are market share, profit-making ability and comparative advantage of the trade industry. Under these indices, it selects several representative second-level indices. Then, it chooses five main determinants of China's trade industry competitiveness. They are technology, human resource, market demand scale, government policy and foreign direct investment. By analyzing, it tries to seek all kinds of reasons that lead to the actual results and trend of the trade industry competitiveness.The fourth chapter is the positive study on China's trade industry competitiveness. From the index system, it selects five indices, which are international market ratio of occupy, export growth advantage index, processing traderate of increase, trade competitiveness index and net export revealed comparative advantage index. They analyze the situation of our trade industry competitiveness from total sum or from SITC. Then it collects the evaluation results of these indices and tries to give an overall evaluation of our trade industry competitiveness and predict the development trend in the coming period.The fifth chapter further discusses the affection of FDI on China's trade industry competitiveness from the qualitative description and the evidence analysis. The qualitative description mainly discusses trade-creative effect, structure-progressive effect, technology-advance effect, market-expanding effect and management-innovative effect of FDI. The evidence analysis uses the software package of SPSS to calculate the correlation coefficients between FDI and the trade competitiveness indices of our trade industry. And it also sets up the linear regression equations with one unknown quantity for the trade competitiveness indices of primary products and manufactured products.The last chapter is the countermeasures and suggestions to enhance our trade industry competitiveness. On the basis of the above analysis and discussion, it proposes that our country should implement the trade development strategy, which is oriented by competitive advantage. This strategy has new features that are different from the traditional trade development strategies in the past. The concrete suggestions include promoting our production structure high-grade, improving the quality and technology content of export products, realizing the import substitution for the semi-finished goods of processing trade, strengthening the industry orientation of foreign capital policy and cultivating the competitive domestic market environment.