Shortand long-term drivers of China’s high-tech export leadership: empirical analysis
- 作者: Balashova S.A.1, Abramian R.A.1, Lazarev N.V.1
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- RUDN University
- 期: 卷 33, 编号 2 (2025): ASIAN AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD
- 页面: 334-349
- 栏目: INNOVATIONS IN THE MODERN ECONOMY
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2313-2329/article/view/324363
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2329-2025-33-2-334-349
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/AFNVOG
- ID: 324363
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It is widely acknowledged that the People’s Republic of China has emerged as a major player in the global arena of high-technology product exports. In the preceding 15-year period, high-tech exports have exhibited an average annual growth rate of 6%, though this trend is stochastic in nature. Consequently, the growth rate is not consistent but is acutely responsive to external shocks. The Granger causality test and the Engle — Granger cointegration test are utilised to identify the long-run effects of the variables under consideration. The Error Correction Model (ECM) is employed to estimate the long-run and short-run response to changes in the main drivers. The results demonstrate that despite changes in economic policy and the launch of the Made in China 2025 programme a decade ago, the primary long-term driver of export growth remains foreign capital. While expenditures on research and development (R&D) have shown a tendency to positively influence high-tech exports in the short term, international investment, particularly in the form of foreign direct investment, has a more significant long-term impact on high-tech exports from China. In the short term, a decline in net foreign direct investment inflows is likely to be balanced by an increase in R&D. Nevertheless, in the long term, the impact of accumulated international investment proves to be considerably more significant. New Chinese policy priorities are expected to shift the main driver of high-tech export growth from foreign capital to domestic R&D.
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Svetlana Balashova
RUDN University
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Email: balashovasa@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1797-8825
SPIN 代码: 8307-9357
Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, Head of the Economic Modelling Department, Faculty of Economic
6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationRuzana Abramian
RUDN University
Email: 1132210576@pfur.ru
student, Economic Modelling Department, Faculty of Economic 6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
Nikita Lazarev
RUDN University
Email: 1132222066@rudn.ru
student, Economic Modelling Department, Faculty of Economic 6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
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