A Study On The State-Owned Enterprises Developing The Foreign Trade From The Angle Of Enhancing Competitive Power Of Enterprise

Nowadays, as economy's internationalization, globalization and integration are being quickened, the competition of the integrative power among nations is hotter and hotter, and thus the task of expediting economic development has been very urgent. After about three decades' opening and reforming, China, with rapidly developing foreign trade, has become a big country of world trade, which could be proved by the fact that in 2005, the amount of foreign trade of China has gone up to be No. 3 in the world. The development of foreign trade has pushed ahead the continuous increase of domestic economy and the promotion of state-owned enterprises' competitive power. Therefore, the research questions of the thesis include the following: as the leading power of our national economy, what developing process have state-owned enterprises experienced? What opportunity and challenge have they been faced with? How can they, especially the large-scale manufacturing ones, realize the transformation from having relative advantages to having competitive advantages and thus enhancing their international competitive power.Since the People's Republic of China was established, the reform and development of state-owned enterprises in China have gone through four stages, as the changes of the country's economic development strategies and the reform of economic systems are being pushed ahead. Stage 1, the stage of planned economy system, from 1956 to 1977; Stage 2, the stage of delegating power and transferring interest, from 1978 to 1977; Stage 3, the stage of trying out stock system alteration, from 1993 to 1996; Stage 4, the stage of state-owned enterprises' strategies' adjusting, from 1997 till now. Within the corresponding period, our country's foreign trade has also experienced several stages. From their developing process, foreign trade development is significant to the promotion of state-owned enterprises' reform and development. As China has joined WTO, the foreign trade development of state-owned enterprises have been faced with great opportunity and challenge, so it is very urgent to promote themselves in various aspects in the process of foreign trade development.This thesis, based on the concerned theories about the relation of foreign trade and enterprise' competitive power, it analyzes the present situation of state-owned enterprises' foreign trade, and raises their questions in international competition. Next, combining the developing experience of foreign trade and state-owned enterprises since the new China, discusses the importance of developing foreign trade toward promoting state-owned enterprises' competitive power. Third, it continues the discussion of the opportunity and challenge that they are faced with, and the both sides' conditions they meet in order to realize competitive power promotion in foreign trade. Finally, it gives seven pieces of policy suggestion to enhance competitive power of state-owned enterprises, such as fostering and developing various large-scale enterprises and groups, and completing modern enterprises' system.