The Pattern and Influencing Factors of China's High-Tech Products Export to Countries Along the Belt and Road
Based on the high-tech products export data of 31 provinces in China from 2007 to 2020,this paper constructed a"province-country"two-mode network to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution of high-tech products exported from provinces to countries along the Belt and Road,and utilized Tobit model to analyze the factors influencing the network status of provinces.The results show that:(1)There has been a general increase with slight fluctuations in the export scale of high-tech products,with Guangdong Province and Jiangsu Province are the major exporters.The export destinations of each province are mainly Southeast Asian countries,and the export product types are mainly computers and communication technologies.(2)There is a continuing expansion of the breadth and depth,displaying a core-peripheral structure.The eastern provinces have stronger comparative export advantages.(3)Industrial agglomeration level,foreign direct investment,foreign trade environment,and research and development(R&D)capability mainly have positive impacts on the degree centrality or closeness centrality,while industrial agglomeration level,foreign direct investment,foreign trade environment,and friendship city relationship mainly have positive impacts on the betweenness centrality.Furthermore,there are some differences between the influencing factors in eastern and non-eastern provinces.
high-tech productsexporttwo-mode networksocial network analysisthe Belt and Road