From Inter-industry Trade to Intra-industry Trade: An Empirical Study on the Development of China's Trade Structure

Based on China's data from 1992 to 2003, this paper verifies the development of inter-industry trade and intra-industry trade as well as their relationship with per capital GDP. It concludes that China's trade structure mainly takes on the vertical intra-industry trade and the trend is strengthening, while the proportion of inter-industry is a little less than the vertical intra-industry trade and it is weakening. At the same time, the horizontal intra-industry trade is always very little. Furthermore, the vertical intra-industry trade has a notable positive relationship with per capital GDP.