Character and Association of the Commerce and Trade Circulation Industry: A Case Study of Zhejiang

摘要

Commerce and trade circulation industry (CTCI) has a double character of providing services for both producers and consumers. This paper, using the input-output approach, reports on research on the character and industry association of CTCI of Zhejiang Province from the point of producer services. The research shows that CTCI is important to the producers operating, while the linkage between them is weak, and that CTCI is capital intensive and its tax burden is heavy. At the same time, it has a typical character of bottleneck because of its stronger supply impetus to the national economy than other industries. Some suggestions based on the research are given at the end of the paper.