Introduction Of Technology、Innovation And Export Commodity Structure

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, China has revolutionized the face of poverty and weakness through the rapid development of thirty years, and becomes the world’s second largest economy. This thirty year of reform and opening up has witnessed the development miracle of China’s economy, which also means export-oriented strategy is successful. Until the end of2012, China’s total foreign trade volume has leapt to38667.6billion dollars. However, China’s exports goods have low value-added, and the export commodity structure is irrational. Meanwhile China’s exports goods is still at the bottom of the division of global value chains, trade economy is big but not strong. These mentioned problems needs to be improved. With the promotion of the establishment of the innovational national strategy, research on the relationship between technological progress and the structure of export commodities has become the focus. At present, China’s technology import structure is irrational, and innovation investment is inadequate, which severely restrict the speed of optimization and upgrading of China’s export commodity structure. Therefore, to explore the mechanism between these two paths and export commodity structure is important in optimizing the export structure and facilitating China’s transition from the big trading country into the strong trading one.Based on product life cycle theory and technology gap theory, this paper has built the theoretical framework of how technological advances affect the export commodity structure, and explores the conduction path of how technology progress and independent innovation affect the export commodity structure. Theoretical studies show that:advances in technology firstly affect a country’s trade foundation, thereby affect the country’s trade pattern of what is produced and what is exported, and finally export commodity structure has been optimized. Because of the uneven regional economic development, how to develop differentiated policies to achieve regional export commodity structure optimization and upgrading needs to do further empirical researches.To further explore the affection of introduction of technology and innovation on the export commodity structures, based on2002-2011China’s30provincial regional data, this paper uses a static panel of empirical research methods to test the affection of technology introduction and independent innovation on export commodity structure. The empirical results show that:technology introduction, innovation and cross terms between the two all have a significant influence on the optimization of the export commodity structure, but in different regions there are significant differences of the affection of the introduction of technology and innovation on the export commodity structure. Compared with the central and western regions, the eastern region mainly rely on independent innovation to realize the optimization of export structure upgrading, the current technology and current independent innovation can play a role in adjusting the structure of export commodities; the introduction of technology and independent innovation of central region on export structure optimization have a positive effect, but the current optimization efforts of technology introduction on export commodity structure is less than the one in lag phase, and the independent innovation is not conducive to adjusting the structure of export commodities; the western region mainly rely on the technology introduction to adjust the structure of export commodities, and the introduction of technology and the independent innovation are not conducive to the upgrading of the structure of export commodities. Finally, on the basis of summarizing the theoretical and empirical results, this paper puts forward some policy suggestions.This paper is divided into six sections:The first chapter is an introduction to explain the background of the topic and the significance, research contents and methods, and has a brief description of innovation, difficulties and the structure arrangement of this paper.The second chapter is literature review, including relevant literature of technology introduction, innovation and export commodity structure.The third chapter is the theoretical study. This paper is based on product life cycle theory and the technology gap theory, which has a systematic description of conduction path which technological progress acts on the export commodity structure.Chapter Four is status analysis, describing the history of technology introduction and independent innovation, the connotation of the export commodity structure.Chapter V is empirical test. Based on2002-2011China’s30provincial regional panel data, this paper uses a static panel from different region to do empirical research, finding how that introduction of technology and innovation affects the export commodity structure.Chapter VI is conclusions and policy recommendations. According to the summarized conclusions, author puts forward policy recommendations of how to optimize and upgrade the export commodity structure.