Research On China's Shrimp International Trade Structure And Competitiveness

Shrimp is the most valued aquatic product in the international market and is being traded widely. Shrimp is in the first place in farming area, farming province, farming distribution and number of practitioner. It is one of the biggest commodities in China's aquatic product export. Shrimp industry plays an important role in fostering foreign trade, increasing employment opportunities, and improving standard of living.China is the second biggest shrimp producing country and the fourth biggest shrimp exporting country in the world, but from the perspectives of trade structure and competitiveness it is not as strong as what it looks like. What are the characteristics of China's shrimp trade structure and competitiveness? What is the advantage of China's shrimp industry development? What's the inherent reasons of the change of trade structure and competitiveness, by which the trade scale is affected? This paper studies shrimp trade on the basis of the study on trade structure and competitiveness, and provides the foundation of industry and trade policy.The paper adopts and combines normative analysis together with positive analysis, qualitative analysis together with quantitative analysis, static state analysis together with dynamics analysis, and studies China's shrimp trade structure and competitiveness based on collecting mass of data.The main results are as follows: (1) analyzing the changing characteristics of world and China's shrimp trade structure and competitiveness. The world shrimp trade output increases linearly and the trade distribution is imbalanced according to a long time sequence data. China is a net exporter in shrimp trade, of which both the import and export output increase linearly, and the export market inclines to diversify.(2) The analysis of China's shrimp competitiveness is undertaken by two sides. One is market environment and the other is industry. From the market environment, the advantage comes from primary production element and mature consumption market. The disadvantage is from advanced production element, correlative industry and the different demand between interior and international market. From the industry, the disadvantage comes from concentration of the world shrimp production and China shrimp trade, similarity of the product in variety, sales and processing, and the trade barriers. The advantage is that enterprises, unions, and the government are taking various measures advantageous to the shrimp industry.(3) The analysis of influence factors of China shrimp trade output gives the results as follows: competitiveness is the deciding factor; market scale also plays an important role; and market distribution has insignificant effect on trade output.(4) To optimize China's shrimp trade structure, it is necessary to further exploit traditional markets such as USA, Japan and EU; in the mean time, Canada, Australia and Korea are also important markets. Increasing processed and live shrimp export is also advantageous to optimizing trade structure.(5) In order to improve shrimp competitiveness, some measures must be taken including cultivating advanced element, industry strategy, guiding consumption, brand strategy, quality inspection system, improving farming and processing technology, union and government function.