The Export Of Labor-intensive Products Problem Research

By 2009, China high foreign trade dependency still approached 45%, export dependency around 24.5%. There are 7 types of commodities among top 10 export commodities counted by export trade volume are labor-intensive goods. China is also one of the countries which have the most abundant labor resoures, with lower wages and higher labor productivity. In 2003, we have over 744.32 million employed people, cheaper labor costs has become the most competitive advantage elements for China to export goods and service to the world. To sovle unemployment and promote economy development, local governments all expand to drive labor-intensive industry exporting work. Empirically China’s labor-intensive goods still have very strong exporting competitive power, and will remain this competitive power for a long time, thereby, we should keep on developing labor-intensive industry.However, there are many problems happening in our labor-intensive goods export. View through international, The ongoing international financial crisis in 2008 which was triggered by the U.S. sub-prime mortgage debacle since 2007 has affected the world wide economy crisis in 2009, particularly this year’s Euro Debt crisis, every imported countries’local industry being impacted by China’s low price competitive power.Meanwhile the ongoing industrialization that initiated by western developed countries hundreds of years ago resulted in extreme climate change, endangers mankind’s continuous development. China as the most important participant to global industrialization has to take more responsible for climate change, change economy progressing way which consuming more resource and energy, devotes to "low carbon economy", look for new economy progressing way that save more energy and resource. In this situation how our labor-intensive goods export could do?It’s been approximately 20 years since China stationery industry started in 90s, seized the historic opportunity world stationery industry transferring to developing countries, in 2006 our stationery enterprises export volume reached over 4 billion US dollars, and keep increasing these years. China stationery market is much more perspective, market volume in 2006 was around 200 billion yuan, and total consumption volume increased by 15% every year. By industrial census in 2005, there was over 8 thousand of stationery manufacturers, Guandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu 3 provinces accounted for 70%, around 3 thousand of enterprises yearly turnover more than 8 million yuan. Although our stationery industry made huge progress, there still exist many problems:small business scale, lack of competitivity, low specialization, not complied with social accountability, obsessed by trade barrier and trade protection.This paper takes stationery export as evidence to analyse the labor-intensive industry export problems and opportunities, pondering how we could do for labor-intensive goods export in current situations, finding the reasons made it becomes harder for China labor-intensive goods export, in the end, tring to offer some proposition and suggestion.