Sichuan Province, County-level Foreign Trade Development Strategy

Thanks to the rapid development of S&T, the economy is developing faster and further. Global production, communication, capital, labor market and scientific technology have strengthened the internationalization of the social development greatly. Internationalized world economy makes every country or region unable to develop without international economic environment. China's open policy provides an access to the international competition. China is ready to absorb foreign capital and advanced technology to promote economic development.County economy plays an important role in Sichuan, a big agricultural province. In order to strengthen the county economy, we must deepen our reforms and expand the opening to the outside world to make export have more tremendous contribution to the growth of GDP. China faces a new opportunity and challenge with China's entrance to WTO and as the Go-west strategy is being implemented, and global economy is improved.Due to the critical status in western area, its rapidly developing foreign trade and its important role in national economy, Sichuan needs to study the strategy.The objectives of the thesis are to: How to grasp this historical opportunity to realize the catching-up type and leap-bound development. That is a good question. I think one way is to develop an open economy and expand foreign trade. Sichuan has achieved great improvement in county-level foreign trade and economic cooperation. On the basis of Sichuan's achievement and the unfavorable subjective and objective factors, this paper discusses why Sichuan can gain such quick development in county-level foreign trade and economic cooperation.The four parts of the thesis are as following:Part one: current situation of Sichuan county-level foreign trade and economic cooperation.This part introduces the current situation of the foreign trade &economic cooperation in Sichuan and China and demonstrates in what position Sichuan is in the national economy by bringing forward convincing data, and making horizontal and vertical comparison. Then, it demonstrates how counties in Sichuan contribute to Sichuan's foreign trade and economic cooperation. Part two: Needs to pay much attention to Sichuan's foreign trade and economic cooperation.On one hand, this part emphasizes that Sichuan should pay much attention on foreign trade and economic cooperation, On the other hand, this part discusses the government's role and duty as China's access to WTO and Go-west program.Part three: Sichuan can do well in foreign trade and economic cooperationThis part is the main body of the thesis. By integrating theory with practices, we demonstrate that Sichuan can devote major efforts to developing county-level foreign trade and economic cooperation and can make great contributions to Sichuan economy, by means of comparative superiority theory and resources superiority theory.Part four: Make development strategy to benefit Sichuan's county-level foreign trade and economic cooperation Foreign trade and economic cooperation play an important role in the national economy and the opening to the outside world. As a big agricultural province, Sichuan's county-level economy covers a wide range of industry. Thus we should stress the essentials, set up examples, set the aim, and bring out our strength to make up for weakness to make great contribution to Sichuan economy.