Study Of China's Foreign Economic Exchanges

The thesis is divided into five chapters.In the first chapter, the author studies the international background for China's foreign trade activities: Economic globalization. Foreign trade activities are the interactive relationships between China and other nations in the world based on the economic needs and capacities of China. These interactions are decided both by the situations of the national economic conflicts but also decided by the general international economic conflict system. To study China's foreign trade activities, the author first analyzes the international economic globalization as the background of China's foreign trade activities and discloses the other side of foreign trade activity conflicts—the basic contents of international economic conflicts through the analysis of the nature and performance of economic globalization, etc. In this chapter, the author points out that economic globalization is a process that different nations interact with each other and depend more and more on each other across national boundaries, and that the nature of economic globalization is the globalization of capital and the establishment an international capital circulation and accretion system, and that the goal of capital-dominated economic globalization is to establish a global system of capital accretion, and that capital-dominated economic globalization brings about many bad consequences including global poverty, which results in a central-periphery distribution. For developing nations, their process of joining the global economic system is determined by the accumulation ofcapital for the central nations, which creates the systematic overall poverty for these nations and areas, and a global central-periphery phenomenon.In the second chapter, the author analyzes the principal in the foreign trade activities and points out that the mass laborer as a whole is the principal in China. The development of human beings is a history of labor development and the laborer is the deciding factor in the whole process. However, in the various monarchy societies, the laborer was governed by the ruling class rather than being the principal of the society. The goal of socialism is to establish a society in which the laborer is both the principal of working and the principal of the society, and to establish a society for the development of human beings. Socialism is the systematization of the laborers's rights. The basic contents of China's foreign trade activities under modern international commodity trade environment are to start from with the aim of labor development, to take part in the international labor division, and to learn and absorb the advanced achievements from all the laborers in the whole world for China's interests and benefits. These are also the necessary means to realize the development of their diathesis and capability.In the third chapter, the author analyzes the sovereignty in foreign trade activities. Sovereignty is the collectivity of the rights of the principal in the society in international activities. Rights of different principals are collected into different sovereignties in the national level. The sovereignty of socialist China is the collectivity of laborers' individual rights, ownership of working capacity and ownership ofworking materials in the national level. To protect China's sovereignty and to realize the free development of the laborer is the base of China's status in international trade activities. To fully utilize the power of socialist legal system based on the democratic monitoring of the laborers' individual rights on nation's rights is the basic system to maintain the sovereignty principles in China. The author also analyzes the main conflicts in the foreign trade activities and points out that it is the conflict between the capital-dominated economic globalization and China's sovereignty. This pair of conflicts dominates the whole historical process of foreign trade of China. Therefore, for China, the goal of foreign trade must depend upon internal development and outside expansion, promoting the development of China's economic development through international activities.In the fourth chapter, the author analyzes the view in China's foreign trade activities, that is, to start with the development of the laborer as the principal in China's society and to establish strategies for China to interact with foreign nations. View is the strategy for the principal to realize its rights and is the unity of strategic goal, guideline and measures. View is unified with principal and sovereignty. If a nation has no principal in its society, it will lose sovereignty in its international economic activities and consequently will have no view in foreign trade activities. Views cannot be settled down without definite principal and clear sovereignty. The view for China in its international economic activities is to set a clear goal in its interaction with other nations, to have a firm principle, and to realize its goal through effective means. Chinashould focus on its internal development when interacting with other nations, enhance its power as a socialist economic force, maintain the economic system with the laborer as its principal, to establish an economic structure with internal development promoting external expansion, and to interact with other nations in the world under the condition of protecting China's sovereignty.In the fifth chapter, the author proposes the strategy of self-development in foreign trade activities for China. This proposal is an extension of the view, and is the practical measures for the principal to develop itself based on the sovereignty of the society. The central proposal for China to interact with other nations in modern times it to develop itself, through industrialization to promote the diathesis and capability of the laborer as the social principal, to enhance their social position, and to increase China's economic power. Based on this principal goal, China should establish some pillar industries in the process of industrialization, and to increase China's self innovation and creativity in its scientific and technical activities as the same time of absorbing international capital, well handle the relationship between protection and competition, and to enforce the legal system governing international economic activities.