The Research Of The Coordination Development Of The Foreign Trade And Low-carbon Economy In Shandong Province

With the era of low-carbon economy, the pressure to reduce emissions in Shandong province is growing, especially the export trade. Export production in Shandong province use the high-carbon economic model with high-energy, high-input, low-output to lead to the imbalance of foreign trade and the development of low-carbon economy. In this context, it becomes a key issue that how to promote the coordination development between the two. Around this problem, the paper analyzes the coordination of foreign trade and low-carbon economy by combining theoretical and empirical research.In theory, the paper introduces Ecological elements into the foreign trade theory. The paper derived the conclusion that Ecological factor affect a country’s comparative advantage by introducing Ecological elements into the model of comparative advantage and H-O-V model. The paper analyze the change of the production and export of eco-intensive products from the supply change of the labor and capital factor by expanding Rybczynski Theorem. Next, the paper performs a comprehensive analysis of the relationship of the coordination development between foreign trade and low-carbon economy by analyzing the mutual influence way between foreign trade and low carbon economy on the basis of previous studies.In the empirical, the paper uses factor decomposition method to measure carbon emissions in Shandong Province from1984to2010. On this basis, the paper analyzes the relationship between foreign trade and carbon emissions by empirical studies.The results showed that there is a long-term co-integration relationship between carbon emissions, energy consumption and foreign trade. In the long term, energy consumption is the main factors affecting the carbon emissions and foreign trade following by. Secondly, the conclusions of the previously empirical research show that there is the close contact between the foreign trade and the development of low-carbon economy in Shandong Province. The foreign trade promotes the increase of carbon emissions in Shandong Province. The collaborative development between the foreign trade and the low-carbon economy has important practical significance. Therefore, the thesis introduce Coordination degree into the system of foreign trade and low-carbon economy to establish a coordinated development evaluation model to research the collaborative development of the foreign trade and low-carbon economy and measure the degree of collaborative development between the foreign trade and low-carbon economy in Shandong province. As a result, the level of the collaborative development of foreign trade and low-carbon economy in Shandong Province is not high and transfer from the barely coordination of development to the primary coordination of development to be further improved.On the basis of the summary of the full paper, this paper proposes that we should promote the coordinated development between the foreign trade and low-carbon economy by the optimization of production and trade patterns, industrial upgrading and construction of the tax system of low-carbon in Shandong Province.