Based on panel data from nine cities in Fujian Province, how trade between Fujian Province and ASEAN promotes industrial structure upgrading was analyzed. The empirical results indicate that increasing imports and exports to ASEAN can promote the upgrading and rationalization of Fujian Province's industrial structure. In regions with higher levels of economic development in Fujian Province, expanding trade has a greater positive impact on industrial structure upgrading. Financial support plays a positive regulatory role in the chain of expanding imports and exports to promote industrial structure upgrading. In the process of increasing exports and expanding imports in Fujian Province and ASEAN, innovation or boosting consumption are both beneficial for promoting industrial structure upgrading.

industrial structure  /  import and export  /  R&D innovation  /  consumption scale