trade among North America, Europe and Japan indicates that scale
economy, imperfect competition, product differentiation, etc. have
become the dominant factors in today’s international trade. Especially in
the intra-region trade and intra-industry trade, it is the fact that the
function of scale economy has exceeded that of comparative advantage.
Similarly, owing to the change of China’s trade structure in last several
years, we cannot draw out a reasonable explanation of this change, nor
can we exactly predict the tendency of this change by using the Theory of
Comparative Advantage. However, how to analyze and predict the
adjustment direction of China’s trade structure so as to have a better
development in foreign trade is the problem we face and have to study.
This paper studies the relationship between China’s commodity
composition of foreign trade and China’s industrial development by
analyzing the characteristic of China’s commodity composition of foreign
trade and its development trend, and explores the change in the pattern of
China’s foreign trade. It concludes that China’s commodity composition
of foreign trade basically complies with the feature of China’s factor
endowment and the condition of industry development. Intra-industry
trade is becoming increasingly important in China’s trade pattern, but the
vertical intra-industry trade is the main trade pattern. In recent years, our
country’s commodity structure of foreign trade has been improved to
some extent, the export share of capital-intensive and technology-
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