This paper analyzes the impact of Korea’s FDI on the regional economic development in China. The last destination of FDI is the regional level, and the impact of FDI on the economic development has to consider the regional viewpoint. This paper use the data of the Export‐Import Bank of Korea and the National Bureau of Statistics of China, establish the pooled database, include the twelve provinces and municipality, Beijing, Fujian, Guangdong, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanghai, Tianjin and Zhejiang, they has the 94.62% of the Korea’s FDI to China, the period is from 1992 to 2010. In the base of the former research, this paper establish the panel regression model, the Korea’s FDI to China mainly concentrated in manufacturing, the dependent variables of model include the two variables, the per capita GDP and the gross industrial output value, the former represents the regional economic development level, the later represents the industrial development level. The results suggest that the Korea’s FDI to China regional economic development has a positive significance, and to the industrial development has a more positive significance. And the result finds that it is significant in 2001‐2010, but no significant in 1992‐2000, this suggests that the impact is more significant after 2001.

• 金相郁(培材大学中国学部中国通商系敎授)