The Impact and Empirical Analysis of the Development Level of E-commerce Industry on China's Export Trade

Abstract

With its advantages of low cost and high efficiency, e-commerce is not only favored by ordinary consumers, but also effectively promotes SMEs to find business opportunities and win the market. This article starts with the development scale of China's e-commerce industry and the status quo of export trade, and measures the overall index of China's e-commerce industry development level from 2008 to 2018 through empirical methods to analyze its impact on China's export trade. The results show that the development level of the e-commerce industry has a significant positive impact on China's export trade. Finally, it analyzes the existing problems in the development of China's e-commerce industry.