Comparative Study on the Technical Complexity of Agricultural Machinery Products Exported by China, Japan and Korea

As a long-established farming country, China, Japan and Korea are also major exporters of agricultural machinery. With the continuous enhancement of China's comprehensive national strength, agricultural machinery manufacturing technology is also constantly developing, and the gap with Japan and South Korea has gradually narrowed. Based on the analysis of the export scale of agricultural machinery products and the structure of export commodities in China, Japan and Korea, this paper uses the export complexity index constructed by Hausmann to introduce the trade data of 7 types of agricultural machinery products from 35 countries in 2006-2016. The export technology complexity index, from the perspective of the overall and classification, compares and analyzes the changes in the technical complexity of the export of agricultural products from China, Japan and Korea. The study found that: overall, the technical complexity of China's agricultural machinery products has steadily increased in 2006-2016, and is basically in sync with Japan and South Korea, and individual years are even stronger than Japan and South Korea. In terms of classification, China's agricultural machinery product export structure is more rationalized. China, Japan and Korea each have a competitive advantage in HS8433, HS8438 and HS8432, indicating that there is a certain complementarity between China and Japan in the structure of agricultural machinery products.