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to speed up the cultivation of “new competitive advantages”. freepik
Improving the quality of export products and promoting
the movement of industrial division of labour to the middle
and high end of the global value chain is an important way
to obtain new competitive advantages. Product quality has
become one of the key concerns in China.

Studies on China’s trade in wood forest products are
relatively abundant, focusing on three aspects: the structure
and growth pattern of China’s trade in wood forest products,
the competitiveness and trade potential of wood forest
products, and export barriers and trade facilitators for wood
forest products.
It has been found that China’s export of wood forest China’s share of the world’s total wood forest products
products has problems such as unreasonable export product export trade is declining, but it is still the world’s largest
structure, weak competitiveness, and is hindered by a variety exporter of wood forest products.

of trade barriers. Specifcally, China’s export of wood forest products rose
From the research on product quality, the intricate and from US$2329.3 million in 1998 to US$50,021.4 million in
multidimensional nature of product quality makes it challenging 2018, with an average annual growth rate of 17.52 percent.
to establish accurate indicators for its economic measurement. China’s export of wood forest products grew rapidly from
Scholars continue to explore it, and the current measurement 1998 to 2007, especially after China’s accession to the World
methods used in the research process of export product Trade Organization in 2001, with an average annual growth
quality mainly include the following four: technical complexity, rate of 32.03 percent.

the unit value of products, the export quality index, and From 2007 to 2009, affected by the fnancial crisis, the
regression estimation. growth rate of exports was greatly reduced, and there was
Among them, the regression estimation method is derived a brief negative growth in 2009.
from the endogenous determination model of quality, which After 2010, with the gradual recovery of the world economy,
is a cutting-edge method of measuring the quality of export the export of wood forest products also gradually recovered,
products in the feld of economics. and the export value continued to grow from 2010 to 2015.
The exogenous infuencing factors of changes in export Trade value showed a slight decline in 2016 and continued
product quality mainly involve the following aspects: trade to show an upward trend from 2016 to 2018. From the
liberalisation, a strategic export policy, foreign direct investment, perspective of China’s share of wood forest products to

an agglomeration economy, intermediate goods, income level, the world’s total wood forest products export, from 1998 to
and fnancing constraints. 2015, the share continued to rise, from 1.29 percent in 1998
to 14.47 percent in 2015.
Slower Growth From 2015 to 2018, it declined in successive years,
Since 2015, the growth rate of China’s export of wood forest accounting for 12.64 percent in 2018, but the share of
products has slowed down, and the trade value has been export trade is still ahead of the rest of the countries in
relatively stable. the world.