Brief Analysis Of China's Foreign Trade Commodity Structure And Its Impact On Economic Development

With the rapid development in china's total volume of foreign trade, the foreign trade mix has now become the focal point for many economists. This article starts from the review of the theories about foreign trade mix, use the latest statistics to make an analysis of china's development orbit of its foreign trade mix in the past 24 years since its opening to the outside world, and also its current situation. During the analysis, we categorize the imports and exports generally as primary products and manufactured goods, and make further detailed classification according to SITC. Based on these classifications, we make the analysis about the development trend and the current situation of each specific sort of goods. Meanwhile foreign trade mix also have deep relationship with industrial structure adjustment, thus make it no only have static effects on china's total GDP, but also effects industrial structure adjustment dynamically. Besides theoretical analysis, the demonstration results also provide a very persuasive proof for both the static and the dynamic effects. In this article, we set up a simple econometric model, use the latest available statistics, with the help of the software SPSS to get the results of the relationship between foreign trade mix and the development of GDP, and also the relationship of foreign trade mix and industrial structure adjustment. In this session, we also make explanation about the results with an attempt to find the striving direction of china's foreign trade structure adjustment. On the foundation of the previous analysis of the current situation and the demonstration results, contraposing the problems exsiting in china's foreign trade development, in the last part of the article, the author propose some countermeasures for china's foreign trade mix adjustment.