| International industrial transfer as an important part of the word economic globalization and regional economic integration, plays a very important role in promoting economic co-operation between countries and regions. It is also an important path of industrial structure adjustment and upgrade for the exit and undertake. At present, there is an obvious trend that international industrial is transferring to China and China's eastern coastal areas'industry is moving to mainland. The trend of international industrial transfer provides a great opportunity for the economic development of Hubei Province.Currently, there aren't clear indicators to measure international industrial transfer. In this paper, when analyzing the current situation of international industrial transfer and doing the empirical study, we adopt the common practice of most scholars which is using foreign direct investment to represent international industrial transfer. After comparing several measurement methods of industrial structure, we chose the distance discrimination method from relative comparative law to measure industrial structure. The concrete procedure is that we use Shanghai Province as a reference and calculate the industrial structure distance between Hubei Province and Shanghai Province, then use the calculate result to measure the height of industrial structure. After empirical analyzing the relationship between industrial transfer and industrial structure, we find that in the long run, industrial transfer has positive effect on industrial structure upgrade. To more effectively use industrial transfer to promote industrial restructuring and upgrading, we suggest that Hubei Province should improve the software and hardware economic development environment, emphasize technology absorption, and guide foreign investment. |
