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Author(s):: XIE Qiao-xin; SONG Liang-rong; 1. School of Zhijiang, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310000,Zhejiang, China; 2. School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

Keywords:: FDI; logistics industry; competitiveness; intervening variable; cointegration test; Granger causality test

Abstract:: To study the relation between Chinas FDI and the competitiveness of logistics industrial development, this paper performed quantitative analysis by use of cointegration test and Granger causality test on the basis of statistical data of FDI and logistics industry from 1997 to 2014. The results show that, there is a negative relationship between FDI in logistics industry and logistics industrial competitiveness while there exists a positive relationship between FDI of other industries and logistics industrial competitiveness. Granger causality test shows that the FDI in other industries is the cause of the development of the logistics industry, while the development of the logistics industrial competitiveness is the cause of the logistics industrial FDI flows. Furthermore, the impact path of FDI is extracted like this, FDI promotes logistics industrial competitiveness through technological path and labor capital intensity path, and hinders the improvement of logistics industrial competitiveness through capital path and employment proportion path.