Research On The International Competitiveness Of China's Copper Industry

The non-ferrous metal industry is China’s pillar industry,and the copper industry is an important component and a significant basic raw material industry.China is the world’s largest copper producer and consumer.Copper is widely used in electricity,construction,transportation and other fields.In the process of industrialization,urbanization and informationization in China,the copper industry has played a very important role.After the 1980 s,China’s copper industry has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable achievements.However,there is still a big gap with the Western copper industry.There are still many problems,and international competitiveness is not strong.How to improve the international competitiveness of China’s copper industry has become an urgent problem to be solved.This paper first defines the copper and copper industry,and expounds the research background and significance,and briefly clarifies the three economic theories that support this article.Secondly,it analyzes the development status of China’s copper industry from the aspects of production,trade,consumption and existing problems,that is,China is a big country in the world of copper production,trade and consumption,but at the same time there is a high dependence on raw materials,the industry is becoming more discretized,and technology problems such as weak development capability,few product varieties,and prominent industrial structure contradictions.After that,the Chinese copper industry’s international competitiveness evaluation index system was constructed.The single-index evaluation method was used to measure the level of China’s copper industry under this index.Through the comprehensive index evaluation method,China and nine other copper industry powers were strengthened.The index values are compared and ranked by means of averaging and ranking,and 10 countries are ranked to accurately locate the level of China’s copper industry.Then,based on Porter’s "Diamond Theory",qualitative analysis of the influencing factors affecting the international competitiveness of China’s copper industry from five dimensions;quantitative analysis based on the "Diamond Theory" model,that is,according to each impact factors are selected as suitable time series as a time series.The model is constructed by multiple linear regression method,and each influencing factor is taken as an input factor into the model for analysis.Among them,the China Copper Export Display Competitive Advantage Index is the explanatory variable of the international competitiveness of the copper industry.The number of employees in the industry,the GDP per capita,thephysical labor productivity of copper dressing workers and the number of copper enterprises are used as explanatory variables.Conducting regression analysis and drawing conclusions: the number of employees in the industry(negative)and the physical labor productivity of copper beneficiaries(positive)have a great influence on the international competitiveness of the copper industry,and the per capita GDP(positive)and the number of copper enterprises(negative)It has little effect on the international competitiveness of China’s copper industry.Finally,combined with the problems and influencing factors in the development of China’s copper industry,the article gives policy recommendations for improving the international competitiveness of China’s copper industry,including deepening domestic copper resources,implementing group and brand strategy,and producing.Specialization and large-scale scale,adjustment of product structure,increase of effective supply,expansion of copper industry chain and cultivation of high-tech talents.