Analysis of Marine Industry Structure and Competitiveness in Zhejiang Province Based on the Shift-share Method

Based on marine statistical data from 2001 to 2012, this paper analyzes the marine industry structure and competitiveness of Zhejiang with the Shifted-share method. According to horizontal static comparison, the results show that the marine industry growth of Zhejiang is resulted from the growth of the national marine industries, which ranks after Jiangsu and Shandong. After longitudinal dynamic investigation, the results show that the growth rate of marine industry of Zhejiang is unstable, sometimes it is higher than the growth rate of national marine industry while sometimes its lower than the latter; the growth effect brought by the structure component and competitiveness component of marine industry shows no apparent fluctuation rules and that the positive growth effect brought by both is lightly more than the negative growth effect.