2006 年 52 巻 4 号 p. 69-85
The strategy of driving the development of an economy through promoting exports arouses several concerns. First of all, the development of export-oriented industries may result in high levels of imports of capital products and intermediate products such as mechanical equipment, etc., which in turn reduces the balance of trade accounts. In addition, it is also very important whether the export-oriented industry per se has higher production efficiency and has the ability to consolidate those industries with lower production efficiencies to finish the production of exporting products collectively so as to lead the lagged industries’ development and promote their increase of production efficiency. Through comparisons with Japanese counterparts, this paper examines the characteristics of the collaborations between the main Chinese exported-oriented industries and other industries in their production process as well as using the level of imported intermediate products. The results show that main Chinese export-oriented industries keep changing and the industries involving in collaboration of finishing production with industries with lower production efficiencies keep increasing. However, unlike their contemporaries in Japan, the main Chinese export-oriented industries have failed to reduce their usage of imported intermediate products in their production process. On the contrary, they have kept increasing their usage of these products. This results in a situation in which more exports lead to more imports of intermediate products, and this has become one of the many reasons affecting Chinese import.