A Study On The Technology Transfer Efficiency From FDI And International Competitiveness Of Auto Industry In China

It's known that auto industry is important for the economic development. In China, this industry is not weak any more, which is one of the pillar industries filled with potential developments. Meanwhile, it is not highly protected any longer, which is facing the fierce competitions after the entry of WTO. With the gradual opening-up of market, its international competitiveness has been paid more attention to.Technology development is the key point to its international competitiveness for auto industry which is technology intensive. Since the Reform and Opening-up, China's auto industry has been utilizing FDI to advance technology under the policy of 'Making Technology by Market'. As the growing scale of FDI in our auto field, there are huge developments in output, benefits and structure. Does it mean that international competitiveness of our auto industry has reached the top of the world as high as the output did? Has FDI push the advancement of this industry technology? Has the 'market' brought the advanced technology? Therefore, the writer tries to analyze these points.Chapter 1, reviews the main theories of International Competitiveness Evaluation and related theories on technology transfer efficiency from FDI. With the reference on them, the writer sets up an index system on international competitiveness evaluation based on casual-result analysis, puts forward the issue.Chapter 2, analyzes quantitatively the causes influencing the competitiveness. Combined with the result of general competitiveness in auto industry given by Zhang Yabin, one conclusion is coming up, that is our international competitiveness of auto industry is laggard.Chapter 3, from the perspective of technology transfer efficiency from FDI, analyzes econometrically the conclusion given in Chapter 2. It is found that the direct reason of low international competitiveness is the negative technology transfer efficiency from FDI. Then, there is the all-round study on the basic reason causing the negative efficiency from the perspective of both practice and theory.Chapter 4, gives the answer to the issue posed in Chapter 1. Further, the suggestions on how to improve the technology transfer efficiency from FDI are brought forward according to the research in Chapter 3.