Probe Into Foreign Trade Structure Of Shijiazhuang

During the development of economic theory, the research on foreign trade structure, especially on the optimization of foreign trade structure, has always been one of the priority fields of research in economics. Which kinds of products should be exported by a country or a region, where should these products be exported, and how does the government shape and adjust its foreign trade strategies and policies to promote economic progress and social development? From western international trade theories to Marx's, various points of view have sought scientific theoretical support for the trade activities between countries or regions. Among the theories, Marx's theory and statements on foreign trade have become hotspot and central issue for research and the theoretical foundation for foreign trade practice in China. In the meantime, with the constantly opening to the outside world and further improvement of market economy, foreign trade has been playing increasingly important role in promoting the growth of regional economy.Since the 21st century, Shijiazhuang has made remarkable progress from both total foreign trade amount and structure, thus promoting a constant and steady economic development, helping build a prosperous and stable society. It shows the developing trend with the following features: private enterprise expansion, product structure industrialization, market varification, trade approach varification, and total amount expansion. However, the imbalanced foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang has severely restricted the overall development of foreign trade, hindering the growth of regional economy. From the main structure of foreign trade, although the foreign trade of private enterprises has made a fast development, it, with low innovative ability, has not yet achieved enormous leap forward in growth; from the exports structure, export products with high scientific and technological content and higher value-added still remain a low proportion, while"technology spillover effect"in import products is not satisfactory; from the trade market structure, the foreign trade market highly focuses on a few countries and regions in Europe and Asia, resulting in high dependence that increased the risk of foreign trade, and reduced its competitiveness and flexibility; from the trade approach structure, processing trade has not achieved a large scale development, remaining slow growth; from the total amount of foreign trade, import Lags far behind export, causing imbalanced development of import and export trades. Therefore, in order to change Shijiazhuang from a"big"market into a"strong"one, the more important task is to solve the problems lingering in trade structure, rather than only increase the total amount of foreign trade.The thesis begins with Marx's theory of foreign trade, discussing its characteristics in practice and time from the angle of foreign trade structure, analyzing the connection between optimizing foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang and promoting regional economic growth, in addition, through analysis on demonstration, it offers an objective description about the evolvement and impact factors of the foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang, combining relevant theory and research result on foreign trade in Capital and other classical works with the practice of foreign trade development ; meanwhile, the thesis collects many statistical data about the foreign trade structure, products structure, market structure, approach of trade and total amount structure in recent years, according to which, under the instruction of Marx's foreign trade theory, it uses method combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, making a comprehensive, systematic and in-depth study on the problems in foreign trade structure and their reasons, listed as the following: private enterprises face difficulty in getting financing, lacking awareness of independent innovation; foreign trade enterprises have few own-brand products, and levels of product structure remains low; foreign market is difficult to open up since the export products are easily replaceable; irrational industrial structure decreases willingness to invest. Based on the above analysis, the thesis also puts forward adjustment strategies and countermeasure to optimize the foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang, including adjusting relevant policies and increasing support; promoting brand stratedy and adjusting product structure; making every effort to open up foreign market by making less replaceable products; cultivating high-tech industry and vigorously developing processing trade; coordinating the development of import and export and making overall plans to make an harmonious development of the principles of"going out"and "bringing in". The thesis aims to help optimize the foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang and promote regional economic development .The thesis is divided into five part. The first part gives a short account of the background and significance of the research, showing relevant theoretical literature review, investigation thoughts and method as well as the overall grasp of the paper; the second part introduces relevant definitions, types and characteristics about foreign trade structure, launching a systematic study on Marx's foreign trade theory which instructs the optimizing of foreign trade structure, offering the theoretical basis for acquiring data for quantitative and qualitative analysis; the third part discusses the progress and the status quo of the foreign trade structure, using data to demonstrate the development and evolvement of foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang and analyzing the impact factors of changing; the fourth part concentrates on analyzing the problems existing in foreign trade structure and the reasons; the last part statements the target model of optimizing and the corresponding strategies to optimize the foreign trade structure in Shijiazhuang.