Evolution Characteristics and Influencing Mechanism of Fruit Trade Network——Empirical Research on the Free Trade Area of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
More than two-thirds of China's foreign trade value in fruits concentrates on the free trade area of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.Research on evolution characteristics and influencing mechanism of the fruit trade network in the free trade area under the Agreementis of great significance in promoting in-depth cooperation in China's fruit foreign trade,consolidating multilateral trade partnerships and promoting the development of China's fruit trade.In this article,bilateral trade data of the Parties was used to reveal the evolution characteristics of fruit trade network in free trade area,and the influencing mechanism of network evolution was explored from four aspects:economic and trade environment,factor endowment,geography and culture,and institutional environment.Based on the theories of social network,factor endowment and national competitive advantage,the article constructed a theoretical analytical framework of fruit trade network evolution characteristics and influencing mechanism,focusing on the free trade area under the Agreement from the perspective of social network to provide support for better utilization of the agreement rules for fruit trade.The results showed that:(1)From 2005 to 2021,the density of fruit trade network in free trade area increased from 0.17 to 0.40,showing the characteristics of"small world"with high clustering and short paths.(2)The individual characteristics of the Parties were highly heterogeneous with China,Thailand and Vietnam,accounting for 68.10％and 67.27％of the total weighted out and weighted in free trade area,which were closely linked to each other and formed a"rich man's club"to a certain extent.(3)From 2005 to 2021,the number of core countries increased from 1 to 10 and the number of peripheral countries decreased from 11 to 1.(4)Differences in gross domestic product,fruit production,bilateral liner transportation connectivity index,and the gaps of global governance index between two countries had a significant impact on the scale of fruit trade.Therefore,this article put forward policy insights as follows:making full use of the rules of the Agreement to create new opportunities for the development of fruit trade in free trade area,adopting specific trade strategies for the Parties that are the focus of China's fruit trade,and strengthening the construction of infrastructure to efficiently connect to the unified regional market.
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