The Effects Of Technology Import On High Technology Industrial Structure Upgrading In China

The high technology industry and its upgrading should significantly influence the future China's national competitiveness. But the effect of technology import on industrial upgrading is not good in China.Using panel data from 2004 to 2012 of five sub-industries in high technology industry and the data of three economic regions of our country, based on factor analysis method to measure the degree of high technology industrial structure upgrading, this paper empirically analyzes the moderator effect of specific type of high technology industry and the moderator effect of high technology geography location's on the relationship between the technology import and high technology industries upgrading. This paper finds that the technology import has significantly advanced the high-tech industries' upgrading. The real accurate effect of the advance is depending on the specific high-tech industry's type and its geography location. Empirical Analysis Shows that the medical equipment and instrumentation manufacturing industry's upgrading are significantly advanced by the technology import, but the electron and communication equipment, aviation spacecraft, pharmaceutical manufacturing industry's upgrading are not significantly advanced. The degree of the advance by the technology on the high-tech industries' upgrading in middle china is ranked first, and then the east region be second and the west region be last. The import technology effect on high-tech industry upgrading exhibited economic law ‘marginal revenue decreasing' in east China.Based on the empirically result, the paper puts forwards some suggestions for Chinese high-tech firms as follows:(1) The high technology industry of China should continue to promote technology transfer policy, pay more attention to the rationality of technology selection at the same time;(2) Expand the technology import of medical equipment and instrumentation manufacturing, promote the communication between experts at home and abroad, pay more attention to train the research talents in the field of electron and communication equipment manufacturing;(3) Increase the degree of opening to the outside world in the middle, and actively guide the foreign capital inflows, encourage domestic and foreign enterprises cooperation, establish industry cluster. The eastern region needs to change the strategy of import, on the one hand, by transforming from model-apply to the model- innovative, namely, to increase the remake of imported technology and secondary-research. On the other hand, improve both the quality and the quantity of technology imported, enhance independent research and development and industry-university- research cooperation. Improve learning-ability in the west, implement the “talent introduction” to support western china construction.