An Empirical Research of Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Chongqing

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10.2991/gecss-14.2014.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

foreign trade, economic growth, coordination analysis, countermeasure, strategies

Abstract

After Chongqing became the municipality of China, Chongqing kept the high speed of annual average of 16% or more to develop. And it has highlighted a positive effect of the region’s economic growth. For the depth study of the size that foreign trade can boost the economic growth in Chongqing, sorting out the major variables affecting the positive pulling effect, and then proposing further strategies to Chongqing to promote the coordinated development of economic trade and local economic, this paper select some related statistic data from 1987 to 2012 in Chongqing and has an empirical research of the relationship between external trade and economic growth from a quantitative level. By the research, the pulling effect which the external trade has on the economic growth in Chongqing is visible increasingly. If Chongqing wants to achieve the goal of building the open highland in the western inland, it has to strengthen the reinforcement of the external trade to the economic growth, boost technological creation skills in the whole foreign trade enterprises, optimize the product structure, build international brands, and vigorously implement the strategy of "going out".

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zongrong Ran
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DA  - 2014/01
TI  - An Empirical Research of Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Chongqing
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 68
EP  - 73
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/gecss-14.2014.18
DO  - 10.2991/gecss-14.2014.18
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