The Study on Mediating Effect of Logistics Industry on Manufacturing Competitiveness

Based on the panel data of logistics industry and manufacturing industry in China from 2003 to 2015, this paper demonstrates the influence of logistics development on the scale of production and the impact of production cost through the empirical test of intermediary effect, so as to determine the existence of transmission mechanism of manufacturing competitiveness. The results show that the development of the logistics industry has a significant effect on the overall competitiveness of the manufacturing industry; and the scale of production and the cost of production are partly related to the influence of the logistics industry on the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry; within it the intermediary effect of the production scale is more obvious. And last the logistics industry is to promote the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector.