ABSTRACT
With the continuous development of economic globalization, to speed up the
transformation and upgrading of industries, and promote the fundamental change of the
pattern of economic development, promoting the optimization of industrial structure
adjustment has become a universal pursuit in the economic development of all
countries. At the same time, rapid development of the tertiary industry is one of the
world's most important ways and the driving forces to the growth of national economy,
and its structure is also a measure of whether a country or region’s industrial structure is
reasonable and the degree of economic development of. How to take the tertiary
industry as the breakthrough point to promote upgrading of the industrial structure has
become the focus of research around the world. In that view, this paper tried to analyze
the existing problem of the industrial structure of the Yangtze River Delta region and
propose relative recommendations from the perspective of development of the tertiary
industry.
At present, the Yangtze River Delta is in the middle-and-later stage of development
of industrialization which is dominated by heavy and chemical industry and the high
manufacturing degree industry. Its tertiary industry develops fast. With the rising of its
percentage in national economy, the development level of its service sector has far
outstripped other areas in China.
The article constructs the index system of optimization and upgrading of industrial
structure, which measures the level of optimization and upgrading in Yangtze river delta
region by the three main industrial structure, the three main industry labor, industrial
wastewater emissions/gross industrial output value, industrial waste gas emissions/gross
industrial output and so on. Through the factor analysis model, the article analyzes each
index factor and finally evaluates the level of its optimization and upgrading of
industrial structure according to the results. Supplemented by positive analysis of level
of service and industry structure in Yangtze river delta area, the article comprehensively
values the actual situation of the industrial structure optimization and upgrading in
Yangtze river delta region. Though the industrial structure of Yangtze River Delta has a
certain adjustment, many problems still exist, such as low level of industrial structure,
unreasonable internal structure and low development level of the tertiary industry
compared with the developed countries. There is economic development imbalance
among Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang province, which reflects difference in industry
development stage and level of development and even the phenomenon of homogeneity
in industrial structure. Above all hinder the pace of economic growth and the process of
industrial restructuring in the Yangtze River Delta.
There is a mutually reinforcing relationship between the development of the
tertiary industry and the optimization of industrial structure. To take the development of
the tertiary industry as an breaking point to study the problem of optimization of
industrial structure, is the main feature of foreign studies on the industrial structure in
recent years and is consistent with the evolutionary law of industrial structure. In this
critical period of the current domestic and industrial structure adjustment, in order to