Abstract:

To analyze the competitive advantage of China’s characteristic freshwater fish industry, this paper carries out an analysis in 31 provinces and regions based on Michael Porter's diamond model. This paper also constructed the competitiveness evaluation index system of characteristic freshwater fish industry, mainly focused on four main export species of Oreochromis niloticus, Anguillas, Ictalurus punctatus and Acipenser sturio, so as to explore the competitive advantage and international competitiveness of the industry. The results show that: (1) China’s characteristic freshwater fish industry has obvious resource endowment advantages in production competitiveness factors, in terms of market demand factors, the consumption of characteristic freshwater fish is increasing day by day; in terms of related industries, market structure and competition, the technical content and economic added value of processed products of characteristic freshwater fish needs to be improved, the industrialized application of specialized feed for characteristic freshwater fish is not enough, and the number of large-scale enterprises needs to be increased; in terms of opportunities and government policies, a green and healthy ecological breeding system has been gradually established; (2) the resource endowment coefficient of characteristic freshwater fish is always above 1.0, which has obvious advantages of resource endowment; the international market share of China’s characteristic freshwater fish is 73.22%, the trade competitiveness index is close to 1; the revealed comparative advantage coefficients of tilapia and eel are both greater than 6, indicating that China’s characteristic freshwater fish products have obvious competitive advantages in the domestic and foreign markets.

Key words: characteristic freshwater fish, diamond model, competitive advantage, Oreochromis niloticus, Anguillas, Acipenser sturio