The Optimization In The Product And Distribution Structure Of The Intra-Industry Trade Of P.R.China

As the deepening of the international cooperation around the world, the international division turns to intra-industry division progressively, which result in the inevitable trend of the transformation from inter-industry trade to intra-industry trade; comparing to inter-industry trade, the intra-industry trade means scale economy, product diversity, marginal utility, which bring out new researches in this area.The intra-industry trade is also the inevitable trend of the trade development of China, the relative proportion of the low-level product and the high-level product has reversed and the intra-industry trade index of China has been ascending since the positive trade policies and foreign investment policies were carried out. According to the trade data of 2007(from January to October), the comprehensive intra-industry trade index under SITC5-7 has surpassed 0.6, therefore, figuring out the inward laws of the intra-industry trade and applying correct strategies to boosting the development of the intra-industry trade is really beneficial to the optimization of the industry structure and the export structure, also the resource efficiency and the situation of China in the international division.On the basis of the analysis of the product structure and the distributional structure in intra-industry trade of China, we found that, as to the product structure, though the capital-intensive product and the technique-intensive product have played an most significant role in the intra-industry trade, in fact, more than half of the intra-industry trade is processing trade rather than normal trade, besides this, most of the intra-industry trade was of the contribution of foreign corporations, while national enterprises not only are incapable in product innovations, but also weak in brands and marketing, which confines their participation and competency in international trade and division; as to the case of the distributional structure, the industry transformation from Japan and other newly-industrialized countries and districts makes up the major force of the intra-industry trade development of China's inferior in intra-industry division, comparing to developed countries and newly-industrialized countries, there is still a wide gap between China and them in the gains from the trade, therefore, it is imperative for China to take measures to optimize the industrial structure and distributional structure, and promote the intra-industry trade on the basis of the upgrading in industry structure, raise the technological content and value-added of products, and the status in the international specialization and collaboration.