The Analysis Of The Market Structure Of Shipbuilding Industry

The shipbuilding industry is the strategic industry of our country which has great international competitive power, and also a critical part of national defence. Our shipbuilding output has ranked the third in the whole world, but compared with Japan and South Korea, there is still a great gap not only in the shipbuilding capacity and the output but also in the quality of products, and the technological and managing level. The next five to ten years is the strategic period to achieve the strategic target of being the first largest and strongest ship-made country all over the world, at the same time it is also the most crucial period for the development of our shipbuilding industry.The thesis is analyzing the market structure of the national shipbuilding industry by using the industrial organization theories. The thesis studies the market structure with the analyses of the market concentration, product variation and entry or retreat of the trading barrier, leads to the characteristics of the shipbuilding industry, concludes the tendency of some aspect of the national shipbuilding industry in the future. Based on the analysis of the market structure, the policies and advice of the development of national shipbuilding industry are proposed: industrial normative policies should be based on the proposal that the national shipbuilding industry is a competitive industry in an open economy of developing country and the purpose is to form the oligopoly market structure which is dominated by oligarchs and coexisted with middle-small enterprises in order to achieve the strategic target of being the first largest and strongest ship-made country in the world as soon as possible.The thesis combining the characteristics of the shipbuilding industry defines the shipbuilding market as an international market. It is more scientific than as a domestic market. Based on the definition of shipbuilding market is an international market, the market structure of the international shipbuilding is analyzed. With the analyses of the market concentration, product variation and entry or retreat of the trading barrier, the thesis concludes that international shipbuilding market is an oligopoly market structure with middle (low) concentration. The oligopoly market structure is not matched the profit margin is one of the characteristics of the market structure of the shipbuilding industry.