Research On Export Capacity Of High-Tech Products In Shandong Province

High-tech products reflect the most modern scientific and technological results, thus their export capacity shows directly the international economic competitiveness in a country or a region. Currently, the countries in the world as well as various provinces in China are continuously support the high-tech products export by formulating the strategic plans, increasing the investment and issuing the incentive policies and take high-tech products export as a strategic measure to promote the economic development. This brings pressure to bear on the export on high-tech products in Shandong province. This paper is to focus on the significance and role of promoting policies and incentive measures formulated by the government on the capacity building of high-tech products export, by overviewing the theories related to international trade and the technical characteristics of high-tech products, outlining the status quo of high-tech products export in China as well as in Shandong, analyzing the main restraining factors and existing problems in high-tech products export in Shandong and ,at the same time ,using for reference the experience of the main developed and developing countries in the world. Based on the above mentioned, this paper further put forward the suggestion on macro policy and specific measures to enhance the export capacity of high-tech products, which might be conducive to enlarge the high-tech products export, change the current situation of small export scale, weak competitiveness, poor sustainability and low ratio in export volume in Shandong province.The government plays an important role in enhancing the capacity of high-tech products export. The world economic powers like US, Japan and India have been taking the international trade on high-tech products as the state strategy. The relevant preferential policies are made to promote the export of high-tech products. This paper is concerned with the importance of the competitive advantage and thinks that Shandong should further transform its comparative advantage into competitive advantage so as to enhance its capacity on high-tech products export, guided by the trade theories of competitive advantage, intro-industry and strategic trade policies. On the aspect of policies, Shandong should focus on the re-innovation based on introduction, assimilation, absorption of international advanced technologies, encouraging the shifting and upgrading of processing trade enterprises and promoting enterprises to be the main body of technological innovation. In Shandong, further efforts should be made in enhancing the role of high-tech industries in driving the traditional industries and the correlated effect of foreign-funded enterprises so as to establish the policy promoting system in high-tech products export. On the aspect of implementation and micro measures, Shandong should further accelerate the establishment of export bases of high-tech products, build the export zones of high-tech products in Shandong peninsular, improve the intermediary institutions, and strengthen the back up service for export and foster the export on high-tech products. In the mean time, Shandong should further strengthen the capacity of attracting foreign investment and reinforce the talents squad construction.