Research On Shoemaking Industry Upgrading Paths In Wenling

Wenling shoemaking industry,which is started by family workshop,has become the third largest pillar industries in Wenling after nearly thirty years of development. Along with the development of the industry,the shoemaking is also facing to many problem,such as revaluation of the RMB, labor shortages and the price of raw materials and labor rising.This makes the original advantage in the international competition losing for Wenling shoemaking industry .Then it turns up the "bottle neck" in development. How to keep and promot the industrial advantage on Wenling shoemaking industry is very important.This study,with the upgrade of industry theory as a foundation,and with the industrial up grading paths as the breakthrough point,combining the industrial lifecycle theory,industrial cluster theory and the realistic situation of Wenling shoemaking industry, starting from upgrading paths,under the Wenling shoemaking industry has not yet fully integrated into the global value chain situations, referencing the general industrial upgrading paths in global value chain, find out the suitable industry upgrading paths for wenling shoemaking:through products and processes innovation reach industry "process upgrading" and "product upgrading", by constructing more competitive advantages in production and the innovation and service advantages to realization "function upgrade". Based on the questionnaire of representative enterprise, using SPSS13.0 empirical analysis,I get that the situation of life cycle stages and industrial agglomeration status in Wenling shoemaking industry has significantly effect on its product and process innovation and constructing competitive advantages in production and the innovation and service advantage, and product and process innovation has the same inpacts to construct the produce the advantage ,the innovation superiority and the service advantages. Finally, based on the preliminary analysis, combining the internal and external environment of Wenling shoemaking industry has faced, this stury points out that the Wenling shoemaking industry can increase original manufacturing advantage through innovation or directly stripping off the manufacturing which is low value-added link according to enterprise specific conditions, to construct r&d, design and marketing competition advantages and come true the industry upgrade. At the same time,this study puts forward that it should adhere to the principles of intensive and layering development to realise the upgrading and some suggestions.All of that is for realizing the industry agglomeration to industrial clusterand inserting into global value chain lay the foundation.