The SMEs OFDI Supporting Policies In Japan And Its Revelation To China

The small and medium-sized Enterprises(SMEs) take up a large proportion in Japan and make a great contribution to the development of Japanese economy. The SMEs started OFDI activities in nineteen sixties, although they experienced some frustrations, they still made grate achievements. There are many reasons for the OFDI’s rapid development:on one aspect, the SMEs have strong demands for OFDI, on the other aspect, the Japanese government formulates a series of supporting policies for SMEs’OFDI activities.the Japanese government make effective tax、insurance and financing policies and built up a functional facilitating mechanism,which sweep away obstacles for SMEs’OFDI activities.The Chinese government has implemented’going out" strategy since2000,under the guidance of this policy,the Chinese enterprises’OFDI has obtained certain achievements, in2010,the Chinese OFDI flows ranked the fifth in the world, however, the stock of OFDI still stand on a low level, and the Chinese enterprises are also facing many problems during the process of OFDI, for example:the OFDI financing channel is relatively narrow, the enterprises can’t obtain necessary information and the insurance system is also not perfect, in addition, the Chinese government doesn’t formulate enough supporting policies for OFDI activities, therefore, it is quite urgent for us to absorb successful experience from other countries.the development of Japanese economy in the1980s experienced a similar situation to our Chinese nowadays development:the GDP keeps rising, the currency is facing with the pressure of appreciation, the scale of OFDI is gradually expanding, and the government is intended to intervene the economy,the SMEs in China are facing a similar environment to their Japanese counterparts, consequently the study of Japan’s OFDI supporting policies sheds a new light on our country’s OFDI policy-making.This paper can be divided into five chapters, the first chapter is the introduction,which introduces the background、the purpose、as well as the significance of this paper,then,it introduces the related research both at home and abroad,the research methodology, the innovation and deficiencies.The second chapter describes the definition of the SMEs, the theories that why the government give support to the SMEs, and then it introduces some theories that related with OFDI activities.The third chapter evaluates the status of SMEs in the Japanese economy reviews the history of OFDI in Japan, and then lists the changes of OFDI after the Japan east earthquake.The forth chapter is the main part of this paper,which introduces the support system for the SMEs’ OFDI activities.First of all, it shortly analyses the character of this support system,then it introduces the practices which can enhance the SMEs’ international competitiveness.second,it introduces the supporting policies in detail including finance、law insurance、tax、technology、information、social service which related to OFDI activities,then it analyses the changes of support system after the Japan east earthquake,third,it evaluate the effectiveness of Japan’s OFDI support system.The last chapter analyses the insufficiency of OFDI support system in China, based on the practices of Japan, the paper gives some suggestions on developing Chinese SMEs’ OFDI support system.This paper reviewed all kinds of documents as well as the latest statistics, and made a comprehensive analysis on Japanese SMEs’ OFDI supporting system, which will offer references to the Chinese government.