On The Adjustment To The Growth Pattern Of China's Foreign Trade

China's foreign trade has made great progress since 1978, as the result she has achieved the success of being the third country in the trade volume of the world. However, trade frictions trouble China's export enterprises and government, which have different forms such as antidumpling, technological barriers and others from the 1990s before China's access to the World Trade Organization. These trade frictions have attracted attention of different levels of government, managers and also economic researchers. They put forward a lot of suggestions and did some investigations and models to study the phenomena from different points of view. My study tries to research the growth patterns of foreign trade of our country while facing these trade frictions.There is no clear definition for the growth patterns of trade accepted by most people. The basic explanation is given in the dissertation as follows: import and export of a country (especially export in China at present situation) can develop and enlarge with sustainability by some special mechanism and path– supportive factors.At first the dissertation reviews the Chinese history of growth patterns of trade since open-door policy practice and trade frictions with increasing of the trade volume in export. Some methods are used to deepen the study, for instance, historical comparing method, theoretical method, method of similarity comparison, empirical analysis.Then the dissertation emphasizes three fields. i) Institutional changes have played important role in the trade history of China after the year of 1978. The more outside to the world, the larger volume of trade, meanwhile we can find more trade frictions with other countries along with expansion of the volume in the export trade. Based on the insight of the trade frictions, China made some direct and indirect polices or some regulations to lead export industries and firms to enlarge the amount for export. ii) The dissertation analyses the causes of technology promoting trade from the angle of economics and draws a conclusion that technological progress can promote the exports. An empirical study of technology and trade proves that there is cointegration between China's technology progress and export, and technological progress is also the reason of the increase of export. iii) The dissertation analyses the relations between foreign direct investment in China and foreign trade (import and export) of China by empirical study. The result reveals that FDI has more influence on import and export than the latter to the former. Import or export itself has less influence on FDI.So does FDI to import and export.At last, the dissertation analyses the reasons and characteristics of trade frictions and barriers according to the WTO regulations, and concludes that China has to adjust the growth patterns of trade later on. The proposal for adjustment to the growth patterns of trade should be as follows: i) China's adjustment strategy for trade patterns is to promote the international competitiveness in some supportive industries and export enterprises in order to gain more profits. ii) China as a developing country has its own advantages.She can introduce, imitate, and absorb advanced technology in order to accumulate the scare factors --technology. Try to develop high technology and enhance the trade with American, Japan and EU countries because they are the main market of China export commodities. R&D expenditure should be added more to help high-tech enterprises to gain more technology advantages and more market shares. iii) After entry to WTO, FDI should be used to some important and supportive industries and tertiary industries.