The Trade Effects Of The Establishment Of China - Asean Free Trade Area Of ​​guangxi Analysis

January1,2010, China-ASEAN Free Trade Area's formal completion has avery important significance to Guangxi. ASEAN has been China's important tradingpartners, the economic cooperation between China and ASEAN has been a hot issueof economists. As the cooperate "bridgehead" of the cooperation between China andASEAN countries, Guangxi is also of concern. Since the China-ASEAN Free TradeArea began to build, what kind of affect did the CAFTA have had to the foreigneconomic relations of Guangxi? And what kind of the trade effects did CAFTA had toGuangxi? These questions are worthy of our study.This paper make a comprehensive analysis of the impact what the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area had to Guangxi, and make a empirical analysis about thetrade effects what the CAFTA had to Guangxi by the gravity model. The result showsthat the establishment of a free trade area had trade creation effect on Guangxi. Andthe net trade effect is positive.This paper consists of four parts. The first part of this paper is about thebackground, research objectives and research methods of the research. The secondpart of this paper analysis the effects that CAFTA has on Guangxi from differentangles. The third part makes a empirical analysis about the trade effects what theCAFTA had to Guangxi by the gravity model. The fourth part of this paper givespolicy recommendations to Guangxi about how to seize the opportunity to achieveeconomic development.