1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2. Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract Chinese outmigrant networks and cultural distance have significant influence on the trade pattern of Chinese food industries. Using Chinese Customs Trade Statistics (CCTS) dataset from 2000 to 2016, this study shows China's provinces' food export network and its evolution. It is found that East Asia and North America are the main export destinations in eastern China, while the spatial distribution of food export network in central and western provinces is uneven. All provinces' food export networks have the characteristics of trade value growth and destination diversification during 2000-2016. Second, this study constructs an econometric model to analyze how outmigrant networks and cultural distance affect the dynamics of China's food export network. Furthermore, export growth can be divided into three dimensions, including expansion of destination, growth of trade value and expansion of revealed comparative advantages (RCA), to examine their differences. Empirical results show that:1) Chinese outmigrant networks can significantly promote Chinese food export value growth, but have negative impacts on destination expansion; 2) cultural distance plays a negative role in China's food export value growth and RCA expansion, but effect on destination expansion is not significant; 3) Cultural distance has intermediate effect of Chinese outmigrant networks' influence on food export networks. That is, Chinese outmigrant networks weaken the negative effect of cultural distance on Chinese food export growth, thereby indirectly promote the development of food export trade.
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