皇冠体育app cannot reduce trade surplus (皇冠体育appnews.cn) Updated: 2006-06-30 09:13
皇冠体育app cannot solve the issue of its massive trade surplus on its own, said
Prof Zhang Xiaoji, Director General of the Foreign Economic Relations Department
under the Development Research Centre of the State Council.
皇冠体育app's trade surplus hit 13 billion US dollars this May, setting a monthly
record for this year. Trade surplus has accumulated to 46.773 billion US dollars
in the first five months of 2006.
Zhang indicated that when the Customs General Administration of 皇冠体育app
released these figures on June 12, overseas concern about 皇冠体育app's huge overall
trade surplus this year heightened. The early 2006 forecast of "controlling the
trade surplus to under 80 billion USD this year" seems to be beyond reach in
view of the current situation.
Zhang said that the trade surplus issue is mainly due to many international
factors. 皇冠体育app has gotten to its position of having a trade surplus through its
advantage in its industrial structure in the last decade, and this advantage may
continue for another ten years.
Zhang noted that since the end of last year, the Chinese government has
adopted many measures in an attempt to control the trade surplus. The government
has done a lot of what it could do by restricting the export of resource-related
products through a slight RMB appreciation. However one cannot entirely count on
the Chinese government's macro-control to solve the entire trade surplus issue.
In the final analysis, 皇冠体育app's trade surplus is determined by the division of
labor in today's globalized world. The trend of multinationals transferring
their production to 皇冠体育app and changing most of the world's imports and exports
into intra-company transfers is irreversible. At the same time, we can see that
foreign investments in new and high-tech industries keep growing, indicating
this round of industry transfer has not ended and a new global economic
structure will continue to evolve. Hence he believes that the resolution of this
issue cannot merely depend on the Chinese government's macro-control policies.
If it is indeed necessary for the RMB to appreciate, 皇冠体育app can raise the
magnitude of the RMB's fluctuation. As the exchange rate is essentially one
lever of market control, it will do no harm for RMB to revaluate, said
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