本文认为,中国沿海地区以消费品为主要内容的出口增长奇迹的取得,是由从国外大量进口先进的机器设备来实现的。这是沿海地区企业在出口导向战略驱动下,面对国际市场更为苛刻的质量标准,而本土装备制造业又无法提供合格制造装备时的一种理性的响应。对此现象可以用“为出口而进口”或“进口引致型出口”的术语来进行描述。本文将产品质量偏好引入垄断竞争的贸易模型,由此发现在产品质量提高后,消费品厂商面对的国际市场需求会增加;进口合适的机器设备能提高消费品厂商短期出口规模与利润,并导致该行业的整体出口扩张。 This paper argues that the miracle of export growth, with consumer goods as its main content in China’s coastal areas, is achieved through the massive import of advanced machinery and equipment from abroad. This is a rational response driven by the export-oriented strategy of enterprises in coastal areas to the more stringent quality standards in the international market, and the failure of the domestic equipment manufacturing industry to provide qualified manufacturing equipment. The phenomenon can be described by the terms “import for export” or “import-induced export”. In this paper, the preference of product quality is introduced into the trade model of monopolistic competition. It is found that after the product quality is improved, the demand of international market faced by consumer goods manufacturers will increase. Importing suitable machinery and equipment can increase the short-term export scale and profit of consumer goods manufacturers, The overall export expansion of the industry.