China's Foreign Trads Structure And It's Readjustment Countermeasure

Foreign trade merchandise structure refers to the composing of diversiform commodities of a country in a certain period, namely the ratio of some big species or a certain kind of commodity to the whole volume of trade. The merchandise structure of a country can reflect the country's economic development level, the industry structure condition, and technological development level etc.A country's foreign trade merchandise structure is decided by the country's industry structure in the final analysis. The improvement of the export structure depends on the improvement and upgrade of the domestic industry. Different industry structures restrict different foreign trade merchandise structure of this country. According to the factor abundance theory (H-O theory) , production element of different country has different relative price. Consequently, that different merchandise has different relative price. Possessing abundance elements, the industry therefore has the export advantages. In addition, a country's foreign trade merchandise structure plays the role of guidance to the development of a country's industry structure and cannot but affects its industry structure.The first chapter mainly introduces the theory of international trade, and it analyze different economic development stages' characteristic towards foreign trade. The first chapter also tells the contribution the contribution of trade to economy development under open economy condition. The second chapter introduces course of the Chinese foreign trade, with several decades' statistical data, it focus on the history and actuality of our country's foreign trade structure. The third chapter points out the problems that lie in our country's foreign trade structure from primary products, industrial finished products and service trade. And calculates the compete power of our country which shows that we have export advantage in labor-intensive products and export disadvantage in capital and technology-intensive products. The fourth chapter raises idiographic strategies on how to optimize and adjust foreign trade merchandise structure.Through the analyses of China's foreign trade structure, the article points out a series of problems that foreign trade export merchandise is faced with. The present condition of our foreign trade shows the level of economy development, industry structure need urgently upgrade and technology have low development level in the primary stage of our socialism. The article puts forward some adjustive strategies from different point of views. I hope the article can be helpful to the adjustment of Chinese foreign trade structure and the improvement industrial structure. I also expect it will be helpful to enhance the quality of Chinese economy growth and hasten our socialism market economy construction.