Compared with the ASEAN countries ‘export structure. China's trade structure has also exhibited significant shifts and rapid changes following China‘s phenomenal export growth in recent years. Of significance is the fact that China actually accomplished its export diversification more quickly than did ASEAN. The share of Chinese manufactured products rose rapidly from 47% of total exports in 1980 to 90% in 2000.More importantly. in 1995 non-traditional capital-intensive goods such as machinery and electronics started to displace the labor-intensive items of textiles, clothing, and foot- wear (TCF). The dramatic shift in China's industrial and export structure by the end of the 1990s owes a great deal to foreign-invested enterprises using China as an assembly platform for components or finished products. From the pattern of China's trade with ASEAN, it appears that the sectors where intra-industry trade is large are machinery and electrical equipment. lt is noted from a recent report submitted by the ASEAN-China Expert Group that the machinery and electrical appliances exported by China to ASEAN are mostly for general or special use. On the other hand. a substantial part of the machinery and electrical appliances that China imports from ASEAN are electronic components and devices. For example. Singapore's most important exports to China in 2000 were mainly electronic valves. parts for data processing machines. and other components for industrial electrical equipment. ln the same year. industrial manufactured goods. which constituted 57% of the Philippines‘ total exports to China. were mostly made up of semi- conductors. Imports of transistors. integrated circuits. and other electronic devices similarly account for a relatively high percentage in China‘s imports of machinery and electrical appliances from Malaysia and Thailand.