The Empirical Research On The Competitiveness Of Manufacturing Industry In Anhui Province

The manufacturing industry is the pillar industry of the any national economy, and it's the benchmark of a country's development and competitiveness. Anhui province has stepped into the middle stage of industrialization, during the accelerating process the manufacturing will gain further weight and dominate the economy. Since the 11th five-year plan, the manufacturing industry has made fascinating breakthrough and become the engine of Anhui province. Now challenge and opportunity come together. As the market mechanism is maturing and China is playing active role in the globalization process, the regional development faces a wholly different competitive atmosphere. Therefore, the further development of Anhui manufacture industry will confront fiercely competition not only from homeland but also overseas; however, on the other hand, the Stategy of Mid-China Rising, Industrialized Province and East-oriented Development brings precious opportunities for Anhui province to boost the progress of manufacturing industry. Especially in this January, the central government approved the Plan of Wanjiang Urban Belt Model Destination Area for Industrial Transfer, in which four of the six vital industry belong to manufacturing, and that is promising to Anhui province. Consequently, this paper's study is meaningful both in theory and practice.The aim of this paper is to evaluate the competitiveness of Anhui manufacture industry and then give some suggestions accordingly. This paper consists of five parts. The first chapter introduces the context; the second chapter clarifies the conceptions used in this paper and review the related theory in this field. In chapter three, we make a through study of the history and present of Anhui manufacture industry. In chapter four, we apply comparative labor productivity and shift-share method to compare Anhui province with Hubei province, Jiangsu province and the whole country, in order to get some general conclutions of the competitiveness of Anhui manufacture industry. Finally, we make a conclusion, gives the uniqueness of this paper and point out the deficiency of this paper and direction of further study. Based on existing research, the paper builds a new evaluation indicator system to evaluate manufacturing industry competitiveness of Anhui province. The main conclusion is under the below. By applying comparative labor productivity method, we find that the comparative labor productivity of most manufacturing industry is lower than 1 and presents a downward trend, which reflects the low benefit compectiveness of the manufacturing industry in Anhui province and the extensive growth style of manufacturing industry; through shift-share method, we find the manufacturing industry of Anhui province is entering into the rapid development stage, and has its advantages on sturcture and compectiveness, and stands on the same level as that of Hubei province but lags behind in amount; At the same time, Anhui economy has a obvious heavy industry feature, and some of its heavy industry are even more competitive than that of Jiangsu province. After applying the above two methods to evaluate the manufacturing industry of Anhui province, we find that pillar industry represented by steel, machinery, automobiles, electrical equipment and non-ferrous is competitive, and is the main force to enhance the total compectiveness of manufacturing industry of Anhui province; however, the development of the infant industries of Anhui province is seriously backward, not only has low labor productivity, but also uncompetitive on structure.