A Research On The Adjustment Of China’s Export Commodities Structure Under The Background Of Low-carbon Economy

With the growing of global warming and the intensity of resource and energyproblems, pursuit of low-carbon development and transformation of the economicgrowth mode is the choice of the future development. Nowadays, the development ofeconomy and society is conditioned by resource and environment, and low-carboneconomy is worldly recognized as a good way to rely to climate change and insureresource security. China is the majors of energy consumption, and carbon-intensivegoods account for a large proportion in the total exports of products. In this way, thecarbon tariff imposed on the imported goods by the EU, the US and other developedcountries will have a negative impact for our export goods. Therefore, in the contextof the low-carbon economy, China’s export products structure adjustment hasimportant significance for the sustainable development of trade.The combination of qualitative and quantitative research and theoretical research andempirical research method is used in this paper. On the basis of theories onlow-carbon economy, this paper conduct the theoretical analysis of China’s exportproducts structure. The main export data and energy consumption per unit of output isaccessed and summarized in order to conduct a empirical analysis.The main contents of this paper include the following components:The first part is the preface. This chapter introduces the research background andsignificance and the investigation status at present, as well as the main researchmethod and context in thisThe second part analyses the theory on structure of China’s export products. Theanalysis of H-O theory, sustainable trade development theory and carbon tariff theory, Analysis of theory and the theory of carbon tariffs provide a theoretical basis andfoundation for the adjustment of China’s export products structure.The third part analyses the structure and the carbon intensity of China’s exportproducts. According to the energy consumption per unit of output, China’s exportproducts are divided into three categories. They are high-carbon products, low-carbonproducts and cleaning products. High-carbon products account a large part in the totalexport, and cleaning products are too small. As for the low-carbon products, they arethe largest among all but they need to be transformed to be much cleaner.The fourth part conducts a SWOT analysis from the aspects of export structure, policyfactors, capital and technology and international environment. China has formulatedour own emission reduction targets and industry support policies, but these policiesare too macro and has no specific industry rules. China’s government and enterprisescontinue to increase financial and technical input in low-carbon industries, but thesefunds and technical input is far insufficient to sustain the development of low-carbonindustry as a whole. China, as the largest exporter in the world, bears the pressure ofthe international carbon transfer and faces many carbon tariff and other trade barriers.Manufacturing industry becomes China’s main export sector, because we have acomparative advantage in energy and human resources, but the traditionalmanufacturing industry products high pollution, high energy consumption and lowvalue-added products, which is the weakness of our traditional industries.The fifth part conducts the empirical analysis of China’s export products structure.This paper conducts a correlation analysis on the energy consumption of a singleindustry and our exports volume, as well as a analysis of the impacts of three differentenergy consumption per unit output on the total volume of China’s exports. Theregression results show that the energy consumption per unit output and the totalexport volume are inversely related. The influence of the high-carbon products’energy consumption is much more obvious and the clean products’ energyconsumption has almost no effect on the total volume. In order to provide the basis forthe further research, this paper predicts the energy consumption per unit of output ofthe three categories. With the help of technological progress and mature production, the energy consumption per unit of output will decline in varying magnitudes.Part VI make policy recommend the way to adjust China’s export products structure,such as increasing technology investment, the inflow of talent, upgrading domesticindustrial structure, changes in the pattern of trade and the strengthening ofinternational cooperation.Part VII is the conclusion part, summarizing the main content and conclusion of thispaper.