Optimization Of The Structure Of Export Commodities In Qingdao City

Qingdao is located in eastern coastal China, the north Bohai Rim Economic Circle, the south Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone, west of population, resource-rich north, central China, is the most potential for growth in north China's port city of trade, with Hong Kong and Shanghai of China Gold Coast Center for the three major economic strategy. Qingdao, located adjacent to Japan and Korea is conducive to investment and development of foreign trade. Since reform and opening up, Qingdao City, expanding the extent of opening up, foreign trade, especially export trade volume and structure have made greater progress in 2008, Qingdao's total exports 31.462 billion U.S. dollars, up 17.5 percent, is the 80's the beginning of the 16 times. In the export structure of primary products and manufactured goods increased from the early 80's 7:12 to 90:10 in 2007. However, the rapid growth in the export trade, optimize export structure, we should see the problems in Qingdao, such as: the overall level of development of export trade is not high, the labor-intensive manufactured goods to products with relatively advantage and competitiveness of products are mainly primary products and labor-intensive products, the mix of export commodities in the international division of labor in low status, low technical content products, low added value, export market is too concentrated, the degree of processing shallow own knowledge property rights and famous brands, such as export much. From this we can see that the current problems the development of export trade in Qingdao prominent export commodities of the problem is the irrationality of the structure still exist. This disadvantage in the global financial crisis in 2008 against the backdrop of all the more conspicuous. Therefore, in order to achieve the export trade of Qingdao sustainable growth must be in Qingdao to optimize the structure of export commodities. At present, China-based scholars nationwide or targeted to the province's export structure for research, research on the municipal level is relatively low in this article draw on the results of previous studies, combined with the Qingdao Foreign Trade and the actual situation of the use of quantitative and qualitative combination of methods to study the structure of export commodities, for the first time in Qingdao over the years the dominant export comparative advantage index (RCA index), the Trade Competitiveness Index (TC index) changes in the calculation and analysis, and based on an analysis of the result of profound analysis of the structure of export commodities, Qingdao problems and the issue of deep-seated reasons behind the end line with the results based on an analysis of the characteristics of the response of Qingdao and recommendations.