Improvement of the “big but not strong” situation of manufacturing industry in China from the perspective of China-US comparison based on gravity model and sustainable livelihood framework

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Xu, Liangping^a | Wang, Yaowu^a | Liu, Yi^{b; *}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Construction Management, Key Lab of Structures Dynamic Behavior and Control of the Ministry of Education, and Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China | [b] School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Yi Liu, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China. E-mail: bjfulunwen2021@126.com.

Abstract: Compared with the United States, the “large but not strong” situation of China’s manufacturing industry is still prominent. The reasons are, in addition to the “two-end squeeze” of “re-industrialization” of developed countries and emerging economies relying on low-cost advantages to build new “world factories”, China’s development shows weak core competitiveness, few leading companies and brands, fragmented production chains, low labor productivity in manufacturing, weak technological innovation capabilities, internal disadvantages such as insufficient support for high-end factors required for manufacturing industry development and the need to optimize the business environment, which should arouse greater attention. Therefore, based on Gravity Model, Sustainable Livelihood Framework and Core Competitive theory were used to find the reason and solution, and there is still a long way to go to build a strong manufacturing country.

Keywords: China-US comparison, manufacturing industry, big but not strong

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-226063

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1361-1371, 2022