Research On International Competitiveness Of Xinjiang's Cotton Industry

Cotton is only to food production in the second staple agricultural products, and is also the longest agricultural industry chain in the field of economic crops in China. It involves not only over 100 million cotton farmers source of income, but also relations with the textile industry 18 million employees interests of economic and hundreds of millions of consumers welfare. Therefore, the development of cotton industry stability or not is directly related to the whole of the income level of farmers, agricultural production and the cotton textile industry, in turn related to the national economic development stability or not. All along, the party and government attach great importance to the development of cotton industry in Xinjiang, in particular since reform and opening up, the state and the autonomous region promulgated a series of principles and policies to effectively promote the upgrading of cotton industrial structure in Xinjiang, especially during the"NPC and CPPCC"in 2008, the state raised Xinjiang's cotton on the transport subsidies to the implementation of the policy, further improve the Xinjiang cotton industry's domestic and international competitiveness. But due to the serious deficiencies of cotton production and control measures (such as the lack of predictability, control the intensity of inadequate or excessive and so on),which lead to huge volatility the cotton market in China and Xinjiang. With phenomena of market volatility recurring,"selling cotton difficult"and"difficult to buy cotton"phenomenon in the turn, so that cotton production into a "shortage" and "excess" dramatic changes in the cycle fluctuations, seriously affected the cotton industry of healthy and stable development and had to face unprecedented challenges and important strategic choice in China and Xinjiang. In response to face the challenges with (domestic and international)cotton market fluctuations, and Post-WTO era , how to enhance cotton industry sustainable development competitiveness will become an urgent resolve the issue, at the same time it has also become the key of cotton industry sustained and stable development in Xinjiang.After detailed analysis of cotton industry development in Xinjiang ,the paper apply the industrial economics, regional economics and econometrics of theoretical knowledge to analysis the cotton industry competitiveness of domestic and international. Analysis and summing up a series of meaningful guidelines and measures to promote Xinjiang's cotton industry deeper development.The paper is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction. It include the significance of topics, research literature review, research objectives and methodology, technical route, research and innovative characteristics, the article organizational structure and information source.The second part is analysis of the status quo on cotton industry development in Xinjiang. It introduces regional distribution on the current, recalls the cotton production, demand, the import and export in Xinjiang since 1949 , and the development trend next few years.The third part is analysis of the Xinjiang's cotton market .This part analysis the status and problems from the market price, circulation market, the foreign trade market and the futures market on cotton industry market in Xinjiang, and then analysis the Xinjiang cotton industry's development process and market trends. That will have very important significance to solve the cotton industry problem and make the appropriate policies and institutional arrangements in Xinjiang.The fourth part is cotton industry competitive determination and evaluation. It is the focus of paper,and it define the cotton industry international competitiveness ,and establish index evaluation system of cotton industry compete and metric cotton industry internationally competitive in Xinjiang by use show of indicators and analysis of indicators. Finally ,we will acquire the comparative advantages and disadvantages by comparison other cotton-growing areas in the world.The fifth part is the conclusions and the future of cotton production in Xinjiang by some policy measures and recommendations.