COMPETITION AND COOPERATION:
THE RELATION OF CHINA─ASEAN IN ECONOMY AND TRADE
ABSTRACT
The relation of China—ASEAN in economy and trade have entered into a high developing speed phase. With the establishment of CAFTA, the bilateral trade will be to have a great increase. Taking into consideration of the opportunity and challenge for making it better and better that we are facing, this article has made comparison and analysis about the competition and cooperation of it.
It begins with the basic introduction of the relation of China—ASEAN in economy and trade, and makes an important comparison for the advantages of their trade, their export products and market structure. The summary of the problems of bilateral trade elicits the background of writing this article.
In view of China and ASEAN have different advantages that have the trade complement, the article uses trade complementarity index’s result to testify that in actually China and ASEAN countries’ trade complementarity are gradually weakening, and China will meet a tremendous pressure in the bilateral trade.
The result of the export comparability index analyze makes a comparison for both all the products and the typical products, we can find in actually that even for the comparison of textile costumes, farm products and manufacturing products, we’ll get the same conclusion: in recently ten years, the export products and markets’ comparability are unceasingly increases.
Finally, through the study of the change of rivalrousness index we find in actually that the situation of competition between China and ASEAN is more and more obvious: in the export of manufacturing products China have more competition advantage but in the market both China and ASEAN have a drastic competition, and they will also keep an impact for a long time in the market of farm products.
At this phase of the developing of the bilateral trade, thinking over some appropriates strategies for this conclusion will help us to lead China and ASEAN to a reasonable development way.