The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA), as the first FTA constructed in China, is an important initiative for China's industries to participate in the global division of labour and cooperation. This paper adopts the bibliometric analysis software ciespace from the technical level and summarizes the existing impact of China-ASEAN free trade agreement on the upgrading of China's industrial structure and its path, and prospects the opportunities and challenges brought by RCEP to China's industrial structure. Specifically, based on the CiteSpace metrology analysis softwarebased on Citespace analysis, the paper searches the literature on China-ASEAN FTA from two major databases, CNKI and Web of since, to sort out the research trends on China-ASEAN FTA and summarise the industrial clustering and industrial transfer effects of China-ASEAN FTA. Secondly, the path of the impact of the China-ASEAN FTA on the industrial structure is summarised, and the general view is that the trade effect as well as the tariff effect of the FTA will promote the optimisation of the industrial structure. Finally, we analyse how the upgraded FTA agreement RCEP will bring opportunities and challenges for China's industrial structure upgrading.
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