A Study On China-germany Innovation Partnership

Since the rate of Prime Minister Li Keqiang's visit to Germany in 2014,the trade activity between the two countries has been more frequent.In the third round of government consultations between the two countries,"Mutual innovation" is a key consensus on the development of all-round strategic partnersh ip between China and Germany.The continued deepening of trade relations bet ween the two countries directly reflected in bilateral trade data,according to statistics,China first replaced the United States,becoming Germany largest trading partner in 2016,while Germany as the EU's main economies,and China's 1 argest trading partner in Europe.On the theme of "Mutual innovation" between the two countries,high-tech industries such as intellectual property-intensive in dustries in the adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure,they can create new engines and promote industrial competitiveness for the economic development,which are also the focus of this article.How to build the innovative partnership between the two countries through the analysis of intellectual property-intensive industrial structure,finally providing a reference to the experience for China to achieve industrial restructuring and product upgrading,this is the research goal of the present article.Based on the data of the global product trade database,this paper probes the foundation of the establishment of the Innovation partnership between China and Germany through the analysis of the industrial structure and internation al competitiveness,product complementarities and so on.At the same time,with the use of principal component analysis and product space theory,the distribution patterns and upgrading paths of intellectual property-intensive industrial st ructure and product space are analyzed in China and Germany.Finally,it provides relative policy suggestions for how to choose the road of industrial upgrading.The results show that the two countries' intellectual property-intensive in dustry products are more complementary and the competitive is becoming stronger.The best way to cooperate is to establish benign interactions,which constitute the basis of the two countries' innovative partnership.But compared to Germany,China's intellectual property-intensive industry of trade competitiveness export advantage mainly stems from a single product category of large exports,while the trade competitiveness of German intellectual property-intensive indus tries is the cumulative advantage of exporting rich and varied high-intensity int ellectual property products.The period and path of industrial upgrading between the two countries differ.China should further expand the type of intellectual property-intensive industry products and invest more resource endowments in high-density intellectual property products.