Optimization Of Chinese Export Commodity Structure In The Context Of Low-carbon Economy

The development pattern of Chinese traditional trade is mainly in export-orinted mode, and the export products concentrates in the industry with energy-consuming, high pollution, low technology of labor-intensive and resource-intensive. In the global Low-carbon economic background, we must change our traditionnal way of thinking and adjust the policy to realize the sustainable development of foreign trade in our country. To reduce greenhouse gas emission and face the challenge of the global climate change, the Chinese government announced a operational goal that carbon emissions will reduce by 40%-45% per unit of GDP in 2020 than in 2005. China's rapid growth in Carbon dioxide emissions not only due to its huge domestic consumption demand and investment in fixed assets, but also China always acts as a "world factory". Total income of export industry is nearly one third of the total GDP and its Carbon dioxide emissions has grate influence on the realization of carbon emission reduction goals. In addition, Some developed countries also restrict high-carbon products and implement the carbon tax policy. Facing the dual pressure of domestic and abroad, The optimization of scale of chinese export trade has become the way for the sustainable develop ment of foreign and the positive development of low-carbon economy.This paper systematically summarizes the domestic and international results and analyzes the new situation of Chinese export commodity structure from four aspects, macro changes, market structure, statistical, index analysis, and on this basis, It reveals the problems of chinese export commodity structure by selecting the proper meathod of calculation and measuremer mode. Specifically, this paper bases on consumed resource data offered by the 31 department form 2002 to 2007, and adopt the estimate method of input-output to estimate the Carbon dioxide emissions generated by all the industrial department and the export commodity structure so that we can reveal the problem of it. After the analysis, the conclusion is that Chinese export department mainly in manufacturing industry and rarely in the department of agriculture, finance, services with the lower carbon intensity. It shows that Chinese high carbon industry has strong competitiveness, which results in the chinese export trade in a higher proportion of high-carbon products. The negative factor of the optimization of Chinese commmodity structure in the low-carbon economy relates to enterprise aspects, also government and market aspects. At last, the paper analyzes the neative factor significantly and put forward the effective strategies in the perspective of enterprises and government.