Impact Of Producer Services Industry Liberalization On Chinese Manufacturing Industry Productivity

In the past thirty years of reform and opening up, Chinesemanufacturing industry developed at a highly speed， but themanufacturing industry problems of lower productivity and lowerability of independent innovation have not been effectively improved.However, with the gradual improvement of market economy systemand the unceasing enhancement of opening-up degree, producerservices industry has much more obvious influence on manufacturingindustry, and both of them have maintained a high development speedand good interaction. Our producer services industry take lessonsfrom foreign successful development experience, and learn advancedmanagement concepts and product technologies, which make theincreasing degree of producer services industry liberalization, andlay a solid foundation for improving manufacturing industryproductivity, and has importantly theoretical and practicalsignificance to our country’s industry transformation and upgrade. Inthe theoretical aspect, as a relatively new subject, producer servicesindustry liberalization has attracted the attention of more and morescholars, academic circles mainly research on two aspects of servicetrade liberalization and marketization. In the practical aspect, the successful experiences of developed western countries demonstratethat advanced producer services industry can promote developmentof manufacturing industry, therefore how to promote manufacturingindustry productivity through producer services liberalization hasimportant significance to transformation and upgrading of ourmanufacturing industry.In this article, I take lessons from the research achievements ofpredecessors, and state the producer services industryliberalization’s boosting effect on manufacturing productivity with theconcept of producer services industry liberalization, and use theMalmquist index to calculate the manufacturing productivity of eachprovince from2001to2011which are based on the manufacturingindustry panel data from2001to2011, then establish theeconometric model to separately calculate the manufacturingproductivity in the integral way and in the specific way according tothe technical types classification.Through theoretical and empirical research, I get someconclusions in this article, First: there have been the problems ofunreasonable industrial structure, the low level of demand, low levelof technology and so on in our producer services industry andmanufacturing industry. Second: financial industry, transportationindustry and scientific research service industry liberalization canimprove manufacturing productivity, but telecommunication serviceindustry liberalization degree is lower, therefore, it can not improvemanufacturing productivity. Third: human capital and theaccumulation of technology have an obvious role in promotingmanufacturing productivity, however, FDI, R&D, the construction of infrastructure, and marketization degree have not obvious role inpromoting manufacturing productivity, this is mainly due to theunreasonable industry structure in our country, uneven industry andregional distribution, and weak technological absorbing ability.Finally,combination with current situation of our manufacturing industry andproducer services industry liberalization, I provide some relativesuggestion according to the conclusions drawed by theoretical andempirical research.