The Research On The International Competitiveness Of China’s High-tech Industries Basing On The Value Chain Perspectives

The reforming and opening of China create new opportunities for its industrial structure improvement and economic development.Especially after the entrance into WTO,Both of the scale and increasing rate of China’s foreign trade have got remarkable progress.The structure of the industries and the exporting goods has been improved.The high-tech industries develop fast.From the global view,high-tech industries are playing more and more important roles in keeping and strengthening a country’s economic increase and its international competitiveness.Especially after the financial crisis in 2008, a new technological revolution is emerging in the global,which makes the high-tech industries become the important strategies and measures for many countries in dealing with the crisis and improving their international positions.Meanwhile,China’s is participating the division of the global production more deeply and the processing trade takes a important position in our country.Under these situations,the“statistical illusion” exists in the traditional statistics,which can’t exactly show the real competitiveness of our country’s high-tech industries.Therefore,studying these industries from the value chain views can improve this problem and then make bases for the bring-up and carry-out of high-tech industries development strategies.After demonstrating the related literature and their weakness,pointing out the defects of the traditional statistical measures in revealing China’s industrial competitiveness,on these basis and with related index from the value chain perspective, the new analysis is done as for the competitiveness of our country’s high-tech industries.Then,the related factors respectively influencing R&D,production and marketing in the value chains and the channels of the factors’ roles are pointed out.After that,the quantitative analysis is carried out and concretely shows the roles of these factors.Further,the paper analyzes typical high-tech zones, provinces and city,summarizes the development experience and the enlightenment.Finally,in addition to the latest situations of the related factors,future development suggestions are proposed for our country’s high-tech industries,in order to improve their positions and competitiveness in the global value chains.The paper includes seven chapters:Chapter one is the introduction.It demonstrates the background,the meaning of the research,the related literature and their weakness.On these basis,it demonstrates the research framework and logic,the methods and the possible creations.Chapter two is the brief demonstration of China’s high-tech industries development.This chapter analyzes the development and the foreign trade situations of China’s high-tech industries and correspondingly points out the weakness.Meanwhile the analysis provides the basis for choosing the typical economies and revealing the competitiveness of China’s high-tech industries through comparison.As for the analysis results:the native high-tech industries don’t develop fully.The processing trade is still our country’s main trade pattern.The foreign enterprises are still the main part of China’s high-tech industries exporting.In views of the foreign trade spatial distribution,through the statistics of China’s bilateral trade,this chapter points out the ten typical trade economies with it. This makes the basis for choosing the ten economies and showing international competitiveness of China’s high-tech industries through comparison later.Chapter three is the measurement of China’s high-tech industries’ competitiveness from the value chain perspective.This chapter first demonstrates the defects of the existing research in revealing industries’ competitiveness of China,points out the principles and related index from the value chain view.Then, through comparing the bilateral trade of high-tech industries between China and each of the ten countries,China’s industrial competitiveness is revealed.It is the possible creation of the paper.Meanwhile,through computing the related index in each of the three value chains,it demonstrates their competitiveness and effects on the high-tech industries correspondingly.As for the conclusions:Comparing to the developed and most of the developing economies,China doesn’t show advantages in the level of the products in high-tech industries.Its exports are more due to the processing trade under international production division and the low-level products,which shows weak international competitiveness;In views of the value chains,China shows weak competitiveness in R&D and production chains.However,in the marketing chain,only computer and office equipment manufacture industry and electronic and telecommunication equipment manufacture industry show relatively good performance.But in addition to the strong opening and remarkable processing trade,it is hard to mean the improvement of the native products and industries’ competitiveness as for the high international market shares in the marketing chain.Chapter four is the research about the factors influencing the competitiveness of each value chain.This chapter respectively points out how to choose and then chooses the related factors respectively influencing the R&D,production and marketing.Then computation and analysis about these index of our country are done.As for the analysis results:In views of the factors in R&D chain,computer and office equipment manufacture industry and electronic and telecommunication equipment manufacture industry are remarkable in the introduction、digestion and renovation expenditure of foreign technology and the proportion of foreign enterprises in large and medium enterprises.Aircraft and spacecraft manufacture industry is relatively more remarkable in other factors.In views of the factors in production chain,Aircraft and spacecraft manufacture industry and computer and office equipment manufacture industry are respectively more remarkable in the proportion of large and medium enterprises’ number in the whole industry and the labor productivity.Five high-tech industries show little difference in the using rate of the fixed assets.In views of the factors in marketing chain,China has got remarkable progress in the development degree of the logistics and information as well as the level of the citizen’s consumption.Chapter five is the empirical test about the factors’ roles as for each value chain.This chapter first shows the correlation and the coefficient significance of the factors as for each value chain of each high-tech industry,then deletes the unsatisfying ones and gets and analyzes the final empirical results.As for the relatively remarkable correlation of the factors in R&D and the relatively more deletion of these factors,the principal component analysis is done in order to know more completely about these factors’ roles and to provide basis for the final suggestions of the paper.As for the results:In the R&D chain,the number of the factors with minus coefficients and theIII factors with positive but insignificant coefficients is more.Meanwhile,the foreign factors show positive roles.In the production chain,the proportion of the large and medium enterprises and foreign factors show relatively good roles,but the fixed assets input and technological factors show opposite roles.In the marketing chain,foreign factors only have negative roles in computer and office equipment manufacture industry and electronic and telecommunication equipment manufacture industry.Their roles in other three high-tech industries and other factors’ roles in five high-tech industries more show positive.After,The principal component analysis is done as for the relatively strong correlation in factors of R&D and the much deletion.It is also compared to the empirical result without the principal component method,further showing the roles of the factors more comprehensively.This is the improvement and creation of the paper and makes the basis for the final suggestions proposition.Chapter six is the case analysis of the high-tech industries.In addition to the typical high-tech zones,provinces and city in China,This chapter further demonstrates these industries development progress and weakness.Meanwhile the related experience and enlightenment are showed.All these make further bases for the suggestions about improving the high-tech industries’ competitiveness.As for the analysis result:The high-tech industries of our country ‘s high-tech zones and typical provinces and city have got development to some extent.But the native-owned technology and core results are still weak.The low-tech production capacity is seriously surplus.Then it is got that:the central and local policies and capital contribute to the development of high-tech industries to some extent.But they and enterprises also have some defects in R&D、renovation、products quality、the absorption of foreign capital、the cooperation with the foreign and the financing of high-tech industries.Chapter seven is the choices about improving the high-tech industries’ competitiveness and the future research.Basing on the qualitative and quantitative analysis and the further demonstration of the latest dynamics of the domestic and foreign factors,this chapter points out the choices about improving the high-tech industries’ competitiveness.Finally,it points out the future research objects and direction about high-tech industries:further doing detailing research about the high-tech industries from more perspectives;further improving the building and handling of the empirical models;strengthening the detailing research about the high-tech industries between China and each of the typical economics in high-tech industries.