Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the MOE (the Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Project No. 10YJC790259). The author acknowledges the China Statistics Yearbook, China Customs Statistics Yearbook, China Trade and External Economic Statistical Yearbook, China Commerce Yearbook, Trade in Goods with China (US Census Bureau) and Japanese Trade and Investment Statistics (JETRO) as invaluable sources of data.

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