Since the 1990s, the acceleration of international industrial transfer and
deepening of the international industrial division have been changing the structure
of international economy. The integration of international economic division system
is not just providing China with the historic opportunity but bringing
enormous challenges. Currently, excessive foreign trade surplus, abundant foreign
exchange reserves and excess liquidity are not only causing concern to China's
foreign economic policy, but also to both international industrial transfer and China's
position in the international industrial division.
Since the 1990s, developed countries have been adjusting their own
industrial structure to improve their labor productivity, to maintain their economic vitality
and to increase international competitiveness by transferring their industries, which
have lost competitiveness to developing countries. The features are:
The labor-intensive and resource-intensive industries have been transferred to developing countries
by developed countries, causing the proportions of manufacturing sector lowered
in developed countries, but increased in developing countries. The services
sectors' employment proportion of the overall employment has increased 5.3% in
the decennium.
The services sector plays an important role in international industrial transfer as the
developed countries are transferring their economic structure to technology-intensive
and capital-intensive industries. Connecting with the substantial improvement of
labor productivity, the developed countries' industries are increasingly concentrated in
the high-tech industrial fields, especially the IT industry and
technology-intensive industries. Meanwhile, developed countries also speed up the transformation
of services sector. Developed countries and emerging countries constantly readjust
their own economic structure by transferring industries to developing countries
and regions. |