Analysis Of Our Country's Retrial Trade And Vicissitude Of Retail Type Of Operation

Retail trade is an important part of the national economy. It is a powerful guide of national product and consumption. Together with the rapid development of our economy and people's living standard, Chinese retail trade maintains its considerable developing speed, especially in 1990s, supermarkets, convenient stores and monopoly shops emerged in our retail trade all of sudden. China managed to join WTO, which is followed by more opportunities as well as great challenge of foreign huge retail industries. As a new result of retail type of operation, almost nothing has been done in the field in our academic level. There are no persuasive theories on the development and evolution of retail trade up until now.The thesis summarizes the characteristics of retail trade and factors that have influence on retail trade development by studying the retail trade's developing course in developed countries. Econometric tools are applied to the factors which affect China's retail trade. The developing trends are also taken into consideration with the hope to provide a new way to improve developing our retail trade and retail type of operation.This thesis is composed of 6 parts. The first part introduces the background and why to study the area; the second part discusses the main theories of domestic and foreign industry's development as well as vicissitude of retail type of operation. Retail trade, retailing type of operation and other related concepts are also introduced in this part. In the third part, we analyze and compare the developing course and current status between developing countries and China in retail trade. Characteristics of China's retail trade are given a thorough study and the factors that drive the development of China's retail trade are summarized. The Fourth part analyzes the developing status of China's shopping malls, super markets, monopoly shops, convenient stores and no shop operating with the data on the number of shops, operating areas and operates income between year 2002 and year 2006 quantitatively. The fifth part studies empirically China's GDP growth rate, urban residents per capita disposable income growth rate, country population growth rate and the effect oftransport amount growth rate on growth of total retail sales of social consumer goodswith multivariate regression model. The last part draws a conclusion based on theformer analysis and studies the developing trend according to different type ofoperation.