Abstract

In terms of total export growth or export share of total exports of the country's total look, Jiangsu, Zhejiang provinces in the Yangtze River Delta region is showing at the Pan-Pearl River Delta region than in Fujian and Guangdong provinces stronger export competitiveness. International competitiveness of export products of empirical studies have shown that since the late 1990s, coastal areas have basically achieved the transformation of export product structure and international competitiveness of the inter-industry transfer, conversion and transfer in different regions but the speed and the existence of life processes the difference. Analysis of the evolution of industrial structure related to, changes in the level of utilization of foreign investment and location advantages such as the difference of China's coastal areas for export competitiveness track changes provide an explanation. This paper examines the export growth rate difference and the places they occupied in the national export totality between two groups: Jiangsu, Zhejiang provinces and provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. The statistic data since 1998 shows that Jingsu and Zhejiang exhibit stronger export competitiveness than Fujian and Guangdong. The paper concludes that while on the whole the four coastal provinces achieved their export structure shift and improved their international competitiveness, gaps still exist among them whether in developing speed or magnitude of product structure shifting. We wish our analysis could provide an interpretation for the varied fluxion of FDI in China's east coastal areas