Analysis of the Changes in the Growth of Japan’s Direct Investment in and Trade with China

I. Relative Drop in the Proportion of Japan’s Direct Investment in ChinaCompared with the United States and the EU, Japan’s direct investment in China hasslowed down since 1999, with the relative real size of investment dropping. Table 1 shows that Japan’s direct investment in China was slightly more than that of the USA and much more than that of the EU before 1998. But in the ensuing five years from 1999 onward, the situation was reversed. The US direct investment in China rose …     

韩国对华直接投资分析

This article examines, from a dynamic perspective, the general situation of the development of the South Korean direct investment in China since 1992 when the two countries established diplomatic relations. It probes into many characteristics of the South Korean direct invest mentin China: its late start yet rapid rise, the smaller average value of Korean project investments,the accelerated process of localization by large South Korean enterprises in China, the diversified industrial distribution, and the wide-ranging geographical layout. It analyses reasons for the rapid increase in South Korean investment in China: the use of China‘s lowpriced production factors, the South Korean enterprises direct entry into the Chinese market, and the stable investment environment with fewer labour disputes that China provides. This article finally also proves that South Korean enterprises have achieved satisfactory results from their direct investment in China.     

China＇s Penetration of the Korean Market： Stylized Facts and Welfare Effect

China＇s penetration of the world market has been impressive. This paper uses highly disaggregated Korean import data （from 1992 to 2008） to examine China ＇s penetration of the Korean market in the context of the composition of value （the extensive and intensive margins） and the product type （homogeneous and differentiated） in trade. The increase in Chinese imports has been attributed to the rapid increase in the import of new products （the extensive margin） and of existing products （the intensive margin）. However, the growth rate of new products decelerated in the 2000s. The growth in the intensive margin was due to quantity, not price. Chinese imports to Korea did not improve over the period in terms of quality. Although Chinese products became cheaper, they were more differentiated over time. Welfare gains were realized through the expanded introduction of new products from China. However, much of the gains from Korea＇s Chinese product import boom were realized in earlier years （1992 -2000） because even though imported products became more differentiated, the increase in the extensive margin was lower in more recent years （2001- 2008）.     

中国的对外贸易与投资(英文)

I. IntroductionSince the inception of its economic reform in 1978, China has achieved remarkable economicgrowth, averaging about 9 percent before the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and more than9 percent in recent years. Two areas related to China’s economic growth deserve specialrecognition and analysis: international trade and investment. They are the two mostimportant forces related to external factors behind China’s economic reform and havecontributed significantly to China’s economi…     

The impact of foreign direct investment and trade on economic growth Taking China, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines ＆ Thailand for example

In this study the authors make efforts to survey the impact of foreign direct investment and trade on the economic growth of five East Asian countries, China, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Using an augmented production function （APF） growth model, the authors apply panel data Method and data span is from1980 to 2006. The required data are extracted from World Development Indicator 2008. The result shows that a co-integration relationship between growth and its determinants in the APF model is supported. Firstly, the study shows that with the increasing the inflow of foreign direct investment, positive impact on growth in Thailand, Korea and China is proved. However, this impact is negative in Philippine and Malaysia. Also the impact of trade on economic growth has the same result with FDI impact in sign. Further, the impact of labor force on growth is not significant in these countries and the effect of gross fixed capital on growth is positive and has a very high impact on selected countries.     

Table of Contents Issues No. 1-6, 2005

No. 1 3 G-20 and China: A Chinese Perspective Yongding Yu 15 Urbanization: The Chinese Way Aimin Chen 32 China’s Labor Market on Crossroad Fang Cai, Meiyan Wang, Yang Du 47 Should Chinese Local Governments Be Allowed to Issue Bonds? Ligang Liu, Shaoqiang Chen 66 Chinese Privatization: Causes and Outcomes Yang Yao 81 Market Opening and Transformation of China’s Car Industry Yu Chai, Hong Song 94 Analysis of South Korea’s Direct Investment in China Xiaohong Zhan 105 The…     

China, Asia, and the World Economy： The Implications of an Emerging Asian Core and Periphery

I. IntroductionThe effect of China’s rapid growth on other Asian economies is felt most directly through itsimpact on international trade and foreign investment. However, not only is the magnitude of this impact uncertain, even its direction is disputed. Some authors emphasize that China’s emergence as an economic power is applying intense competitive pressure to its neighbors. China’s immense reserves of cheap labor enable it to out-compete neighboring economies in the production of low-…     

FDI Flows between China and ASEAN： Emerging Factors and Prospect

I. Introduction Foreign direct investment (FDI) from ASEAN into China is now approximately fifty times as much as it was in 1990 (Table 1). China’s national statistics show that ASEAN FDI in China is comparable to that from the top five FDI outflow countries: the USA, Japan, the UK, France and Germany. The cumulative amount of China’s actually utilized FDI from ASEAN during 1994–2004 reached US$33.73 bn, which exceeded the cumulative amount of China’s actually utilized FD…     

China＇s Excessive Investment

China＇ s economy has witnessed serious excessive investment over the past 5 years, mainly in the infrastructure and real estate. Excessive investment has adverse impacts on both economic growth and macroeconomic stability. The main causes of this excessive investment are inappropriate growth strategies, low interest rates and weak constraints on government investment expenditure. To effectively control excessive investment, China needs to adjust its growth strategy, to speed up the process of interest rate marketization, and reform the existing public expenditure system.     

Table of Contents Issues No. 1-6,2002

No.1 3‘‘China and ASEAN Can Share the Prosperity Together” ——Interview with Zhang Yunling,Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies,CASS 9 The Feasibility of Establishing a Free Trade Area among Japan,South Korea and China15 East Asian Monetary Cooperation:Necessities and Constraints20 Farmer Preferences in Choosing Health Programs with Insurance Components29 Analysis of the Development of China’s Money Market38 Change ofRegional Financial Development Disparity in China(1978…     

Rebalancing China＇s Economic Growth： Some Insights from Japan＇s Experience

One of the greatest challenges China faces is reshaping its heavily investment-driven mode of economic growth.By investigating how the rebalancing of Japan’s economic growth mode was realized in the 1970s,we indicate that it is essential in rebalancing to correct the distortions in factor cost(labor cost and capital cost) in a harmonious way.In addition,we refer to Japan’s experience to indicate that rebalancing of domestic growth does not necessarily lead to external rebalancing.     

Prospect for China–Korea Economic Relations

I. Introduction The Chinese economy has undergone dramatic changes since the adoption of economic reform and the opening-up policy of 1978. In the past 26 years, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate has reached an average 9.3 percent per year and China’s currentGDP size, measured in comparable prices, is 10.3 times larger than it was in 1978. China’s GDP, measured with the official exchange rate, ranks sixth in the world and is second in terms of purchasing power parity, on…     

Analysis of China＇s Overheated Economy and Macroeconomic Policy Options

Based on macroeconomic analysis since 2003, this article holds mat a trena towaras overheating has surfaced in China‘s economy. China‘s rapid economic expansion has affected the quality of its growth, with rising material and energy consumption and imbalanced economic structure as the main manifestations. Regarding macroeconomic policy options in 2004, decision-makers should shift the policy focus from control of deflation to prevention of inflation; the pace of economic growth should be properly set; a balance between consumption and investment should be strengthened by controlling excessive expansion of investment, and industrial restructuring should be conducted in a coordinated manner on the basis of properly controlling the overly rapid indastrial growth; policies should be continued to boost exports and sustainable growth of foreign investment; and more efforts should be made to accelerate the change in the mode of economic growth.     

Japanese Enterprises＇ Investment in China＇s Software Industry

I. Overall Conditions of Investment by Japanese Enterprises in China Starting from the 1980s, investment by Japanese enterprises in China has been growing continuously. In 2004, Japanese investors established 3454 firms in China, 6.15 percent more than in 2003. Contractual foreign investment amounted to US$9.162bn, 15.17 percent up from 2003, whereas the foreign investment actually used was US$5.452bn, up by 7.86 percent from 2003. In 2004, the number of newly established Japanese enterp…     

Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect the Growth of Local Firms？ The Case of China＇s Electrical and Electronics Industry

Does foreign direct investment(FDI) into developing countries affect the growth of local firms in host countries? Using a dataset of 38 sectors in China’s electrical and electronics industry,in this paper,we analyze whether FDI has a positive effect on local firms,with technology spillovers,added value and increasing total factor productivity,or a negative, market stealing,effect.Estimating the relationship between growth of local firms and investment of foreign firms,our results show that FDI is likely to have a negative impact on the growth of local firms in sectors with large disparities in technology and less experience in business.Therefore,local firms lacking in technology need to find markets with no competition from foreign firms or determine strategies to compensate technology disparities.     

Retesting the Separability of China＇s Rural Households

This article retests the separability of China’s rural households in light of growing doubt about the sustainability of high economic growth in China.If a household’s production decisions are "separable "from the household’s consumption decisions,generally this suggests there is no surplus labor.Many scholars aver that China’s surplus rural labor has spurred rapid economic growth,but concerns have arisen as to whether China still has surplus labor available.We investigate this issue using rural household panel data from 1993 to 2009.The regression results confirm that households in rural China have progressed from being non-separable to separable.The estimation results for both the entire country and regions reject the separability hypothesis before 2004 but fail to reject the hypothesis after 2004(with the exception of the central region).These results suggest that China ’s surplus labor supply is dwindling,especially in the eastern and the western regions.The sustainability of China’s high economic growth is questionable in the absence of a large reservoir of surplus rural labor.     

Decomposing the Effects of FDI on Guangdong＇s Economic Growth

Guangdong has been experiencing rapid economic growth, while this rapid growth was accompanied by a boom in inward foreign investment and the establishment of a direct link with the outside world. Using city-level panel data from 1996 to 2002, the four-year moving fixed effects FDI-led growth model empirically shows that Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan （HMT） investment will not continue to make up the bulk of FDI in Guangdong for long, and that its dominant influence on Guangdong＇s economic growth will be gradually replaced by other sources of investment in the near future due to various political and economical reasons.     

Chinese Offshore RMB Currency and Bond Markets： The Role of Hong Kong

This paper discusses the role of Hong Kong in China’s grand scheme to build up the RMB as a global reserve currency.We highlight the economic importance of Hong Kong to China in terms of channeling foreign direct investment into China,some of which,in the future,will be denominated in the RMB.We discuss the development of China’s RMB currency swap and deposit markets in Hong Kong.These offshore markets enable the RMB to trade freely, setting the stage for the RMB to become fully convertible and allowing market forces to play a role in pricing the value of the RMB,and help in the development of the RMB-denominated bond(or dim sum bond)market in Hong Kong.Finally,we present evidence of the phenomenal growth of the dim sum bond market in Hong Kong,which can further enhance and strengthen the use of the RMB outside China.     

China＇s ApprOach to Rebalancing： A Conceptual and Policy Framework

This article seeks to develop a conceptual and policy framework for understanding China’s role in the global economic imbalances.China’s contribution to these imbalances via recurrent trade and financial surpluses corresponds with a phase of deepening structural risks to China s economic growth and development.These structural challenges include:the composition of growth resulting from China’s dynamic internal transformation,China’s trade orientation,the trajectory of resource use and Commissions,welfare problems relating to distribution and international constraints.This article develops a conceptual framework for examining the relationship between the processes of long-run structural transformation in China,its economic imbalances,and the role of institutional reform in dealing with these structural challenges.As such,economic policy should extend beyond short-term macro management to pursue an institutional reform agenda to facilitate broader structural change to mitigate constraints to future growth and to improve economic welfare.     

China＇s Economy in 2005： At a New Turning Point and Need to Fix Its Development Problems

I. High Growth, Higher Stakes China’s economy in 2005 experienced another year of surging growth, with its total GDP(based on recent revision) expanding at 9.9 percent to reach 18.23 tn yuan (US$2.26 tn).1 Growth in 2005 was slightly lower than the 10.1 percent in 2004; but it was nonetheless very high. Sustained high growth is accompanied by potential high risks, and it inevitably raises the issue of future sustainability of high growth. Although the Chinese economic policy-makers in 200…