Since reform and opening, China has made great economic development and trade size, trade volume increasing year by year, the Chinese economy have a significant role in promoting development, but at the same time, China's dependence on foreign trade is improving, especially after China joined the WTO, which This trend is more evident.

First, the status of China's foreign trade dependence

(A) the increasing dependence on foreign trade

Since 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, to participate in economic globalization and the accelerated integration into the international community's increasing degree of foreign trade in promoting economic growth in the increasingly prominent role of Chinese trade volume of 509.65 billion from 2001 dollars to the $ 2.56 trillion in 2008, along with the continued expansion of foreign trade of China's foreign trade dependence is gradually increased, with the exception of 2009, the international financial crisis has led to decline in China's exports, reduce dependence on foreign trade, the overall dependence on foreign trade increased year by year, from 2001 to 2007 0.44 to 0.70 continuous, although slightly lower in 2008, but reached 0.60. Generally speaking, China's foreign trade dependence is growing year by year.

(B) the dependence on foreign trade than in eastern and western regions

To facilitate the analysis, this central and western regions were selected in the East Shandong, Anhui, Qinghai Province as a representative of .2008, Shandong GDP of 3.107206 trillion yuan, import and export amounted to 158.14 billion yuan, dependence on foreign trade of 0.358; and Anhui Province, Qinghai Province's GDP was 887.417 billion yuan and 96.153 billion yuan, import and export amounted to 141.664 billion yuan and 4.843 billion yuan, dependence on foreign trade were 0.16 and 0.05 shows that China's foreign trade dependence in the region between the very balance the economically developed eastern region, leading in the level of foreign trade, dependence on foreign trade is generally higher than the central and western regions; Midwest industrial backwardness, industrial configuration unreasonable,Dependence on foreign trade is also lower than the eastern region.

(C) the dependence on foreign trade significantly higher than the world average

Currently, the world's dependence on foreign trade reached 0.41 on average, of which the average level of 0.384 in developed countries, developing country average of 0.51, while China's dependence on foreign trade an average of 0.57 with other world powers compared to dependence on foreign trade (in 2007, for example), China's dependence on foreign trade not only higher than the 0.309 of India and other developing countries and Brazil, 0.219, 0.23 than the United States, Japan and other developed countries of 0.304 high since 1970, the world's dependence on foreign trade average annual growth rate of 1.49%, while China's foreign trade dependence of the average annual growth rate of 7.82% .1979, China's dependence on foreign trade is 11% lower than India, the United States and Japan, dependence on foreign trade, China's foreign trade in 1990 dependence on more than three great powers of the level in 2007, China's dependence on foreign trade reached 0.70, not much higher than the U.S. and Japan, even more than with developing countries India and Brazil have more than twice. such a high foreign trade dependence, is rare in the international arena.

Second, China's high dependence on foreign trade because

(A) the promotion of economic globalization

With international trade, international finance, international technology co-ordination framework in place, providing a system for the protection of economic globalization, and promote cross-border movement of factors of production, as China's export trade to create the conditions for China is the process of economic globalization have been One of the most benefit developing countries since 2001 after joining the WTO, to further increase the degree of opening up, and the world economy has become increasingly inseparable, but also with a substantial increase in dependence on foreign trade, therefore, China's foreign trade increased dependence and economic globalization process is consistent.

(B) expanding foreign trade

Since the 1990s, China's export growth has been faster than GDP growth, so China's foreign trade relative to GDP growth rate is much higher than the world average, which led to increasing dependence on China's foreign trade and higher than the world average level since accession to the WTO, China's GDP in 2001 from $ 1,162,010,000,000 to $ 4,910,610,000,000 in 2009, average annual growth of 9.7% while China's import and export volume in 2001 from $ 509.65 billion in 2009 to 22072.2 billion U.S. dollars, average annual growth of 18.3%. declarants test

(C) China's industrial structure is irrational, the lower the proportion of tertiary industry

Generally believed that when a country's GDP in the second dominant industry, the third industry lags behind, the import and export is labor-intensive products or simple processing technology-intensive products, such products will be included in foreign trade total, so in terms of trade is relatively high dependence on foreign trade; and when the tertiary industry in GDP, the higher the proportion of foreign trade to benefit the main way is through capital, technology and service trade, etc., rather than goods import and export, so that dependence on foreign trade in terms of trade is relatively low. China China-based processing and manufacturing industry structure, the low proportion of tertiary industry, which is caused by the high dependence on foreign trade of China one of the main.

(D) foreign trade structure, a large proportion of processing trade

Processing trade is mainly from other countries import large quantities of raw materials and intermediate products to be assembled after the re-export to foreign countries, the biggest feature is the low value-added products, the product directly to the international market, two out, so the processing trade in foreign trade The higher the proportion, the higher the dependence on foreign trade a long time, China's foreign trade, processing trade is one of the main,In foreign trade, a larger proportion of .2008, but China's foreign trade production and processing base in China to complete the program, and low-tech, industry leading role associated with poor, so the processing trade two outstanding characteristics that make it not really play foreign trade on economic development, stimulate the use of processing trade, including a large number of indicators, including dependence on foreign trade, it has inflated the ingredients.

The rapid increase in China's foreign trade dependence on the one hand, China's economy is more integrated into the world economy, China's economic development and international standards, international division of labor and enjoy the benefits of technological development, but the other hand, and linkages to strengthen the world economy, external economic turmoil is likely to affect China China's economic development, the Chinese economy at a disadvantage.

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