Since the reform and opening up，China's foreign trade has made considerable progress both in quantity and scale. But it can not be denied that the overall development of China's foreign trade level is not high, especially structures. Structural problems has become the outstanding issues which obstruct China's foreign trade. From the angle of empirical studies, we know China's comparative advantages and its profound changes reflect deeply in the structure of external trade issues. Therefore a comprehensive, systematic and in-depth analysis and study on the course of structural changes of China’s foreign trade since reform and opening up are significant meaningful for the judgment and grasp the long-term trends in China's foreign trade, formulate strategies and the development of foreign trade policies. This thesis expounds the structure of China’s export products from three aspects – the changes of export products structure, the relationship among product structure and macro-economic and industrial structure and the factors influencing the changes of products structure. The analysis methods such as graphic interpretation, measurement analysis are used in the thesis to give an understanding of product structure of China's foreign trade.
【key words】 Foreign trade The structure of export products Competitive advantage Industrial structure
