EXPORT PERFORMANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OF CHINA IN COMPARISON WITH JAPAN AND ASIAN DRAGONS IN THE YEARS 2000

Abstract

The Chinese exportations are incorporating higher-tech, sophisticated production, allowing the expansion of its market-share in the U.S and European market. Therefore, the goal is to analyze the real incorporation of sophisticated products in the Chinese exporting agenda during the 2000s vis-à-vis its Asian partners such as Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong- countries that had success in the technological upgrading process. For this purpose, this article based on data from United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database presents the analysis of exporting agenda according to technological intensity of studied countries. The main result earned is that despite the intense effort devoted by the Chinese economy for the incorporation of technologically sophisticated products, China stills far from the standard “ideal”, here seen as the Japanese economy.