The Regional Differences of the Influence of National Cultural Distance on Chinese Import-Export Trade
将中国主要贸易伙伴按文化聚类分为6组，实证发现文化距离对出口的影响大于进口，且不同文化维度的影响方向和大小存在差异，据此将贸易伙伴分为四类。
According to cultural clustering theory, this paper first classifies 31 countries/regions, China's close trade partners, into 6 cultural clusters, and then empirically studies the influence of the cultural distance gap between China and each country within each cluster on Chinese import- export trade with them. The results show that:(1)there exist differences in the influence of the gap of national cultural distance between China and each country within each cluster on Chinese import-export trade with them—in general, China's export to each country in different cultural clusters is more susceptible to national cultural distance than its import from it;(2)there are also differences in the influence of the distance of each cultural dimension between China and each country within each cluster on Chinese import-export trade with them, and the influence directions are also different. Inspired by these conclusions, we further classify Chinese trade partners into 4 types: Insensitive Type, Export-sensitive Type, Import-sensitive Type and Two-way Sensitive Type. These findings provide a new policy frame and constructive enlightenment for China to develop its international trade in the new era.