An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of  Agricultural FDI on the International  Competitiveness of Agricultural  Products in China

Yanqing Jiang; Gaoyan Shi

doi:10.4236/me.2014.511096

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An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Agricultural FDI on the International Competitiveness of Agricultural Products in China ()

Yanqing Jiang^*, Gaoyan Shi

School of Economics and Finance, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.

DOI: 10.4236/me.2014.511096 PDF HTML XML 3,183 Downloads 3,910 Views Citations

Abstract

Under the background of the reform and opening-up, as well as continuous economic growth and development, China’s attractiveness for foreign direct investment (FDI hereinafter) has shown an increasing trend year after year. However, FDI is distributed unevenly in the three broad industrial sectors. Through our investigation to the utilization of agricultural FDI, we find that the size and scale of FDI utilized in agriculture lagged far behind with manufacturing and service sectors and distributed unevenly across geographical regions. The “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” issue has always been one of the most important and difficult issues in the process of China’s economic reform. The main focus of this paper is on what impacts FDI has on the agricultural sector of the macroeconomy and how we should fully utilize FDI in order to alleviate trade deficit in agricultural products and enhance the international competitiveness of agricultural goods in China.

Keywords

International Competitiveness, Agricultural FDI, Scale Operation, Granger Causality Test

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Jiang, Y. and Shi, G. (2014) An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Agricultural FDI on the International Competitiveness of Agricultural Products in China. Modern Economy, 5, 1046-1052. doi: 10.4236/me.2014.511096.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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