Research On The Development Of Cross-strait Economic And Trade Relations

Since the reform and opening up, the cross-strait economic and trade exchanges after thirty years of development, has made great achievements. From the initial cross-strait with herbal trade,the cross-strait trade volume is now more than100billion dollars a year. Taiwan’s trade dependence on the mainland from of1.27%in1995to the development of24.88%in2012. Cross-strait economic and trade relations getting closer and closer, the importance of the mainland to Taiwan is growing. Perhaps in the near future, the two sides will gradually develop into a unified economy and achieve economic integration.Firstly, this paper presents the relevant trade theory, and describes the research scholars on cross-strait trade situation; then introduces the development of cross-strait economic and trade exchanges and analyzes the situation of cross-strait economic and trade exchanges. In the forth chapter,we do empirical analysis on cross-strait economic and trade. Empirical research in two parts, each part is divided into two smaller parts. The first part of the two-part study of cross-strait trade and relevance of research on Taiwan investment in mainland China. This part do reserch from1991to2002and2002to2012respectively, concluded that pre-strait trade underpinned Taiwan investment in mainland China, from2002to2012Taiwan investment in the mainland late led to the development of cross-strait trade. The second part of the study of the role of investment and trade development of cross-strait economic respectively. It concludes that a cross-strait trade and economic growth of the Taiwan is related, investment in the mainland and Taiwan’s economic growth is not directly related, and cross-strait trade has little impact on the mainland economy growth. In the last chapter, this papaer adivce that establish long-term cross-strait negotiation mechanism to enhance the cross-strait industrial cooperation, build Haixi Economic Zone, encourage mainland capital combined with Taiwan’s capital to promote cross-strait exchanges.