Reserach On Financial Integration Between Mainland China And Taiwan

Since economic relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan has been more closely, research on the progression of financial integration between the two sides of the straits has been a hot topic. There is widespread agreement that the financial integration is growing worldwide. It has become a catchword and a keynote in EC, ASEAN, China and other countries. When China tried to open its financial market to the outside world, the financial integration process had been put into effect. When we turn to the question of how this integration should be defined and what is its regular pattern, there is very little consensus. Instead, there are numerous problems, not only about how to define it, but even how we treat the integration between the mainland China and Taiwan.In order to settle these questions, this paper tried to build a theory frame to explain the essence of financial integration, based on factor endowment theory, growth pole theory, core-periphery theory, financial geography theory and financial development theory. Analyzing in this theory frame, the origin of financial integration in a financial area is the financial resource flow aroused from the difference of financial factor endowment. The motility is the capital’s basic instinct-seeking for profits. The mode of movement is the core of a financial area diffuses financial resource to its financial hinterlands, and the hinterlands go on to diffuse the resource to periphery area farther.The focus of this paper is not the outward manifestation of financial integration, such as monetary system, monetary union etc. but on how the "financial area" comes into being, what is its structure, what is its evolvement process, etc.For China, financial integration is a multiply and complex system, not only with Taiwan, there are also with Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, ASEAN etc. Based on the theory established in the paper, we can analyze characteristic of these integrations between China and other Countries and regions. Furthermore, based on the analysis, a conclusion of what is the part fixed position of the integration between Mainland China and Taiwan is made-the integration between the two sides of the straits will form a financial chain including Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan. For Mainland China, the most important thing in its financial industry is internationalization of RMB, and tries to promote the position of Shanghai in international financial centers. Furthermore, China wants Hong Kong been the main RMB offshore center, and been the platform of Chinese enterprises involving into the world. So the essential of the intrgration between the two sides of the straits is how to involve this prosess.Besides, during the integration political instability is an endogenic factor. Because the Mainland China and Taiwan haven’t been unification, many financial agreements are signed by non-government organizations authorized by their governments. If cooperation between the two sides keeps developing, political instability will influence the integration’s direction.The paper has six parts:Chapter one is exordium, introduce why research on this topic and literature review.Chapter two introduces how the theory frame is been established.Chapter three analyses the structure of China’s whole financial integration, including exterior and interior pattern.Chapter four analyses the characteristic of the financial integration between the two sides of straits, based on chapter three.Chapter five analyses the mode of the integration’s development.Chapter six tries to summarize the whole paper.