A Research Of The Discourse Power From Contemporary Chinese Perspective Of Trade

With the globalization of the world economy, the clash of the international trade has been developing in parallel with the international trade. With the accession to the WTO from2001, China has been experiencing an acceleration in its economy as a result of getting involved in the world economy. Various tariff and non-tariff ’rigid’ barriers keep sticking China, leading China into an era full of trading frictions. Under such a complex and changing international trading environment, how to get prepared, gain the initiative and get the right to speak are becoming key issues which need to be solved urgently in Chinese foreign trading policies. Now, China is a veritable great foreign trading country. However, it hasn’t achieved a position commensurate with its economic strength in the international trade. Therefore,the situation that China’s foreign trade has a huge scale but with little discourse power must be changed. It’s becoming more and more important to analyze and study the issue of the right to speak for our trade, initiatively fighting for the positive situation in the future trading.In this thesis, we start by analyzing the current situation that ’whatever we sell, the price will go down and whatever we buy, the price would go up’to explore the issues raised. Then we analyze this situation with the importer tariff effects and price elasticity of demand theory, coming up with the issue that China is lacking of voice in international trade. Then once again we explore and analyze the reasons. Finally, combing the situation in China, we put forward some trade measures and countermeasures to better improve the situation in international trade, grasping the initiative in future trade.This paper has five parts, with a central topic: discourse power.The introduction part discusses the background and practical significance of this topic. On the basis of studying related researches both from China and foreign countries, we come up with ideas and main contents of this paper, and then illustrate the study method and its innovations from the previous researches. In the following chapter. China is the world’s largest importer of iron ore with more than$100billion imports in2013, but the right to speak in iron ore prices has always been firmly grasped by Brazil-and Australia, the two biggest iron ore exports countries. The absence of the right to speak directly led China controlled by others in the international trade. Another obvious example:as the largest exporter of rare metals, China is the biggest victim of all kinds of trade barriers. In the past, they come forward tariffs, quotas, licenses,anti-dumping and anti-subsidy and other traditional trade barriers to limit Chinese products. Recently they invented new guises, like quality, safety, environmental protection, national security and other non-tariff technical barriers. No matter what we do, we can not still grasp the rare metal trade initiative in the international trade, especially in developed countries, led by the U.S.. The United States worried that with rare earths controlled by China, china would enhance its international trade status and the right to speak. Then it will shake the dominate position of making the international rules and norms. For a long time, the initiative of setting and revising international standards, has always been dominated by developed countries. The third chapter, with the economic model, we analyze our current situation, come to a conclusion that" whatever we sell, the price will go down and whatever we buy, the price would go up " is on the contrary to the trade effects of developed countries, triggering a inquiry of lacking trade discourse. Chapter IV, we explore the reasons of losing rights from all aspects and multi-levels, lack of understanding of the market, Chinese people’s lax, greater internal consumption, lack of partners, no initiative of negotiations.The fifth chapter, aiming for the reasons we concluded in forth chapter, combining with the trade situation in China, we put forward practical policies and measures. Export business companies, government and the country itself should actively make changes to improve their product quality and standards. Government and enterprises should work together to enhance our rights in the international trading and initiatives to speak and negotiate, matching its statues in international trade.