Empirical research on vegetables trade between China and ASEAN based on the gravity model
LIU Yilong
Abstract：Chinese vegetable production was the highest all over the world, the saturation of domestic market made export trade especially important to the development of vegetable industry. ASEAN was a free trade zone with the largest population and the most active economy, was also an important trade partner of China. In 2013, the number of China's vegetable export to ASEAN accounted for 4.85%of China's total vegetable exports, and accounted for 32.97%of ASEAN vegetable imports. There were still spaces for development. In this paper, the panel data of vegetable trade from FAOSTAT from 1999 to 2013 were used for empirical research about the main influence factors of vegetables export trade between China and ASEAN, and verified the effects of preference similarity. The results indicated that the economic scale and population scale of ASEAN was of 2.63%and 0.14%facilitation respectively to the vegetables trade between China and ASEAN, bordering with China also had a positive impact;the economic scale and population scale of China, the distance between China and ASEAN, the differencesof GDP per person was of 3.42%, 6.42%, 0.62%and 0.39%of inhibition respectively to the vegetables trade be?tween China and ASEAN.
Keywords：VegetableExport tradeGravity modelChinaASEAN
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 19-21,27 )