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1、Whythemanufacturingsectorsindevelopingcountriescanbecompetitive?TheEvidenceofChinaWhythemanufacturingsectorsindevelopingcountriescanbecompetitive?TheEvidenceofChinaCanHuanga,MingqianZhangb,YanyunZhaoc,*aDepartmentofEconomics,ManagementandIndustrialEngineering,CampusUniversit
2、ariodeSantiago,UniversityofAveiro,3810-193Aveiro,PortugalbSchoolofEconomics,HebeiUniversityofChina,No.88HezuoRoad,Baoding,HebeiProvince,P.R.ChinacCenterforAppliedStatisticandSchoolofStatistics,RenminUniversityofChina,No.59ZhongguancunStreet,Beijing,P.R.ChinaAbstractPartlyowi
3、ngtoglobalmanufacturingsectortransferfromtheNorthtotheSouth,themanufacturingexportofsomedevelopingcountrieshasachievedsignificantincreaseintherecentperiod.Basedonthedatabaseofmorethan150thousandChinesemanufacturingfirms,thispaperconductstheresearchontheunderlyingreasonsofdev
4、elopingcountries’growingexportcompetitiveness.Firstly,itisfoundthattheprocessingtradeplayedanimportantroleintherisingofChina’sexportcompetitiveness,especiallyinthehightechnologysectors.Thistypeoftradecanbedescribedasthatdevelopingcountriesimportthecriticalcomponentsofthemanu
5、facturingproducts,processandthenexportthefinalgoods.Secondly,thepaperconcludesinChinesemanufacturingsectorsingeneral,loweringtheunitlaborcostdidnothelpincreaseexportintensity,butpromotingforeigndirectinvestmentandfirm’scompetitionsignificantlyboostedtheexportgrowth.TheR&
6、DandinnovationeffortmadebyChinesemanufacturingfirmshadhardlytodowiththeirexportperformance.Thefixedassetinvestmentbythesefirmsdidnotcontributetotheexport,either.Thefirmslocatinginthecoastaleastregionachievedbetterexportperformance.Thirdly,asfarasChinesefirmsinlabor-intensive
7、sectorsareconcerned,theirexportdeterminantsarenotdifferentfromthoseofgeneralmanufacturingfirms,exceptthattheproductinnovationeffortcontributedsignificantlytotheirexportcompetitiveness.InregardtoChinesehightechnologymanufacturingfirms,thesameasthegeneralfirms,theirR&Dinve
8、stmentalmosthadnotrelationwiththeirexplosiveexportgrowth.JELCode:F14;F21;O1