The Interaction between China's Foreign Trade and Environmental Quality

Though China's foreign trade has developed increasingly, the main export structure is still resource intensive and labor intensive industries. Exporting pattern like this depletes resources and causes high emissions and high environmental pollution. The paper analyzes the relationship between the major export industries trade volume and the "three waste emissions" of major industries. Evidences prove that the increasingly expanding foreign trade has accelerated the negative effects on China's environmental quality. The last part of the paper points out it is necessary to integrate trade development with environmental protection.