Optimizing The Trade Structure Of It Industry By Technology Advances

In the year 2004, China's import and export turnover has been over US$1000 Billion. China has become the third largest trade country in the world after the United States of American and Germany. The international trade, together with the investment and consumption has been the main impetus for China's economic growth, it has played a very important role in improving the adjustment of China's economic structure, technology development and the up-grading of the industry.Nevertheless, the development style of China's international trade has potential problems, the most obvious one is the product structure. For a very long time period, China's export trade has developed on the low-tech and low-value basis. The profit margin of China's export product has been very low. As a huge trade country, China is strong in the quantity but weak in the technology. The product structure is imbalance with its status in the trade turnover. As a member of WTO, China now opens its door in almost all dimensions. After an accelerated development of export, more and more problems has turned out to be the obstacles for the further development of the export.The paper is an empirical study of export products structure of China's IT industry. It gives a broad introduction of the product chain structure and the technology development of the IT industry. It focus on the analysis trade structure theory and its application in china's IT product export. The analysis of IT export products structure reveals the current facts of China's export: lacking of core technology, low-tech products and low profile of IT product export. The conclusion of the analysis is to optimize the trade structure of IT industry by technology advances and to improve the development of IT industry of China.The organization of the paperChapter 1gives a broad introduction of the trade structure theory. It takes the IT industry as an example, and made an analysis of the relationship between technology advance and trade structure.Chapter 2 gives an detailed introduction of IT industry product chain and relevant technology development. It explores the information of product structure, the core technology and market share of some famous international corporation, and the reasons for the facts.Chapter 3 gives an introduction of China's IT product export structure and the international market for the IT products. The detailed analysis of China's IT product structure supports the conclusion that the technology advancement is the main problems of the IT industry of China.Chapter 4 gives an introduction of international experience. SAMSUNG of Korea is the positive example to make the high-tech advancement as the drive for the IT industry development in the international market.Chapter 5 gives suggestions for China's IT industry technology advancement and strategies of optimization of the industry.