Analysis of the Impact of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Its Export Scale

摘要

Foreign direct investment and foreign trade are two important ways to participate in the international division of labor. In the context of the challenges facing foreign trade and the rapid development of foreign direct investment, the discussion of the impact of foreign direct investment on Chinese foreign trade is conducive to Chinese use of foreign direct investment to improve its foreign trade situation, and has its practical significance. The existing research on this issue has not taken into account the lag and long-term of the export effect of foreign direct investment. Therefore, this paper analyzes the influence mechanism of foreign direct investment on export scale from different investment motivations, selects the data of foreign direct investment from 2003 to 2015, adopts co-integration long-term equilibrium model and distribution lag model to obtain empirical test, and obtains the conclusion that foreign direct investment significantly promote the growth of export scale and the effect of this lag exits. Then, the empirical results are explained and the relevant policy suggestions are put forward according to the status of the industry distribution of Chinese foreign direct investment.