The Study On International Competitiveness Of Labor-intensive Agricultural Products In Shandong Province

China has opened its Agricultural market to the world step by step after joining in WTO since early twenty first century. That means Competition in agriculture is not only from domestic market but also from the international market. China's agriculture has been integrated into the economic globalization and the agriculture globalization. Under the situation of economic globalization, it is essential for the internationalization of China's agriculture like other countries.The total exports of agricultural products in Shandong province has been ranked first in China for 11 years, and in 2010, those are 12 billion. It is the first time that the total exports of agricultural products in Shandong province have exceeded 10 billion. Shandong province has done great contribution to China agricultural products export.Shandong province located to the west of the Pacific Ocean, about 55% of the areas are plains which are suitable for planting crops. The climate, sunshine and developed water here can meet the need of plants. The favorable natural environment here does well to the development of agriculture. The population of Shandong province is very large but almost 36.50% of workers are farmers. Such a large proportion of farmers makes Shandong province competitive in the development of labor-intensive agricultural products. Under this situation, doing some studies on international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province is of important meaning both on theory and practice for economic development in Shandong especially in China.The thesis gives an in-depth analysis of the international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province and the factors which affect the international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province. Based upon this, essential problems existing in the Shandong labor-intensive agriculture are discussed and countermeasures concerning improving the competitive power of our labor-intensive agricultural products in the world market are identifiedThis thesis consists of 5 chapters:Chapter One, General Introduction.As the opening badge, the first chapter mainly introduces the background and significance of selecting the topic, the research contents and methods, and the frame of the thesis and the new points of it.Chapter two mainly introduces the theoretical foundation and economic structure of the thesis. Firstly, the thesis gives the concept of labor-intensive agricultural product and in order to introduce the background of competitive theories, it summarizes the theory of competitive advantage and new theories of international trade. Secondly, ensure the thesis analyzes the international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province by IMS, TC and RCA. And make sure that in the following chapter we will analyze the factors which affect the international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province by researching into the direct factors such as cost, quality and so on, and the indirect factors mainly with the porter's "diamond model".Chapter three mainly analyzes the present state of the international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province by MS, TC and RCA of vegetables, fruits, aquatic products and meat.Chapter four mainly analyzes the factors which affect the international competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products of Shandong province by researching into the direct factors such as cost, quality and so on, and the indirect factors mainly with the porter's "diamond model".According to such analysis in the first four part, chapter five gives the countermeasures concerning improving the competitiveness of labor-intensive agricultural products in the world market.The essential viewpoint of the thesis lies that Shandong province has strong competition in vegetables and fruits but poor competition in aquatic products and meat. The thesis suggests that the countermeasures to improve this situation should pay attention to the following aspects: 1. The government should accelerate structural readjustment in agriculture and better use the resources effectively.2. The farmers, producer, exporters of agricultural products should make the produce and administration of agriculture standardized and implement those standards well.3. The government should consummate the policies to support agriculture development especially the development of labor-intensive agricultural products.4. The farmers, the government and the exporters should import, develop and cultivate new variety to accelerate the development of seed industry in Shandong province.