Structural Optimization On China’s International Trade From The Angle Of Energy And Environment

China’s rapidly growing economy and its extensive economic operation reqiresignificant energy and environment resources inputs, which have become the severeconstraint to sustainable development. Under the background of globalization, theenergy and environment impacts of international trade have made the problem morecomplex. International trade is characterized not only by the flow of capotal and goods,but also by the energy and emissions embodied in goods during their production. Thus,adjusting and optimizing the commodity structure of import and export trade can easethe impact of trade on the energy and Environment.In the background of the global call for energy saving, structure of internationaltrade and its energy and environmental impact were chose as research objects, andembodied energy and embodied carbon dioxide emission were selected as thequantification indicators of the loss of energy and environment. In this thesis,input-output analysis was used to quantify the impact of international trade on overallenergy and environmental, and both quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis wereused to explain the impact and features of the structure of China’s international trade,and then the strategies of how to ease the loss of our energy and environment byoptimizing China’s international trade structure was proposed.The paper was divided into six chapters, the main contents are summarized asfollows:The first chapter briefly introduced the research background of this article,research content and methods. Impacts of international trade on energy and environment,sustainable development of trade and trade structure optimization were systematiclyreviewed by summarizing domestic and foreign references.The second chapter is the theoretical basis of this article. The concept of “energy”and “environment” mentioned in this article were defined, and the meaning of alow-carbon economy and energy saving were introduced, and then the relationshipbetween the energy environment and sustainable development of foreign trade were explained.The third chapter analyzes the current situation of China’s energy environment.First general introduction of China’s energy situation and characteristics of theenvironment; and then use the loss coefficient method to estimate China’s overall andper capita and per unit of GDP energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions;finally analyzed China’s energy and environmental challenges.The fourth chapter analyzed the current situation of China’s foreign trade structure.Combined with January2012the latest available data, we analyze the status andcharacteristics of China’s overall trade; combined all sectors of imports and exportstrade data in2011and January2012, a detailed analysis of the structure of China’simport and export trade and trends were analyzed.The fifth chapter is the focus of this article, and it makes the optimization analysisof China’s foreign trade structure in the energy and environmental perspective. Firstly,energy and environmental input-output model was established, and then1997,2000,2002,2005and2007(the latest available data) and industry of China’soverall trade embodied carbon and embodied energy value were mearsured and themeasured results can more clearly reflects the embodied carbon emissions of the foreigntrade in general and industry direct and implied consumption; combined withcalculation results, the trend of China’s foreign trade structure and trade structure of theenergy and environmental perspective were analyzed, and finally, make the optimizationanalysis of China’s foreign trade structure.The sixth chapter is of the policy proposals under the perspective of energy andenvironmental optimization of China’s foreign trade structure, including: adjustingexport trade instruction to reduce indirect energy and environmental loss; adjusting thestructure of imports to increase energy and environmental loss import substitution;expanding trade in services; enhancing foreign trade energy saving capability of theenterprise; implementing the energy and environmental tariffs; establishing a carbontrading market mechanisms.