By analyzing the efficiency, supply and demand of the three industries, and the foreign trade of developed countries, this paper argues: the ever-increasing proportion of the tertiary industry in developed countries ...By analyzing the efficiency, supply and demand of the three industries, and the foreign trade of developed countries, this paper argues: the ever-increasing proportion of the tertiary industry in developed countries has not yetproved that tertiary industry is the direction of industrial advance nor the tertiary industry is superior over the secondary industry. By estimating China's industrial structure with PPP-based industrial data, this paper argues that the proportion of China's secondary industry in its GDP is not as high as expected. China will still rely on its secondary industry for further growth because China's labor-intensive industries still possess the most comparative advantage and global competitiveness.展开更多
基金This paper is supported by the following programs: Strategies to Change Industrial Competitiveness and the Evolution of Global Division of Labor (09&ZD035) under China's National Social Science Foundation a national 973 project Analysis on the Path and Peak of Green House Gases Emission and Cost- Effectiveness of Emission Reduction (2010CB955205) the program The Changing Landscape of Global Competitiveness and the Future of China's Industry by Chinese Academy of Social Science (YZDA2010-03).
文摘By analyzing the efficiency, supply and demand of the three industries, and the foreign trade of developed countries, this paper argues: the ever-increasing proportion of the tertiary industry in developed countries has not yetproved that tertiary industry is the direction of industrial advance nor the tertiary industry is superior over the secondary industry. By estimating China's industrial structure with PPP-based industrial data, this paper argues that the proportion of China's secondary industry in its GDP is not as high as expected. China will still rely on its secondary industry for further growth because China's labor-intensive industries still possess the most comparative advantage and global competitiveness.