Study on the contribution of international trade to China´s economic growth

This paper, based on the annual data from 1985 to 2008, studies the contribution of international trade to economic growth in China. Firstly, it builds VAR model, and then analyzes the relative variance contribution of each structural impact to economic growth. Studies have shown that for a short period, export has a rather strong impact on China´s economic growth while the influence coming from import is relatively weak; for a long period, the alteration of China´s GDP is mostly affected by its own alteration, export´s influence over China´s economic growth remains a relatively steady property relation and import´s influence over China´s economic growth is not yet remarkable.