关键词: 长江经济带, 贸易强国, 对外贸易竞争力, 结构分解

Abstract: This paper applies measurement method of national competitiveness in foreign trade to the measurement of foreign trade competitiveness at the provincial level based on the existing research and characteristics of provinces' participating in international trade. The results show that the export foreign trade competitiveness, import foreign trade competitiveness, and the total foreign trade competitiveness of downstream region in the Yangtze River Economic Belt are higher than middle and upper reaches, but the fluctuation of downstream region's competitiveness is also obvious. Further structural decomposition results show that the developments of Shanghai's foreign trade competitiveness and Chongqing's foreign trade competitiveness are determined by the contribution of comprehensive price level, while other provinces' competitiveness of export or import trade changes with trade shares. Based on the perspective of product categories, further research shows that all categories of products of downstream region in the Yangtze River Economic Belt keeps relatively high competitiveness in export and import or general trade, while half categories of products of middle reaches keeps relatively high level, and only a few types of products of upper reaches reach the high level.

Key words:  , Yangtze River economic belt, trade power, foreign trade competitiveness, structural decomposition