Research On Jilin Province's Commodity Structure Of Foreign Trade

Jilin Province's foreign trade has developed very rapidly during 30 years of reform and opening up. However, compared with the national foreign trade development, Jilin still has not fundamentally reverse the situation of the low level and the backward position of foreign trade development in the nation. Its structure of import and export commodities is not unrelated to its very unstable import and export situation.In order to promote the development of foreign trade of Jilin, it is a very important issue to understand the current situation of its import and export trade and optimize its import and export structure for Jilin's economic development.This text will research on the import and export structure of Jilin based on the factor endowments perspective of the comparative advantage, and use HOV model and the classical Leontief input-output method by calculating the proportion of import and export of each industry, the amount of capital investment and labor inputs, total capital labor ratio and capital labor ratio of each industry to carry on empirical research on the export structure of Jilin Province. The digital base is from"42 departments of Jilin Province input-output tables in 2007" and "Jilin Statistical Yearbook in 2008 ".This text can reach to the following conclusions: Jilin Province export more labor , and import more capital. The structure of import and export commodities follows the factor endowments perspective of the comparative advantage. However, the export structure of Jilin shows relative concentration, dependence on resources and potential risks on industries.Then the text proposes relevant policy recommendations to optimize the structure of import and export commodities of Jilin Province. First of all, Jilin should increase capital investment, and actively develop the import and export of capital-intensive products. Secondly, optimize the import and export structure based on the industrial structure. Finally, increase technology investment and support the technology research and development.