低碳经济已成为未来世界经济发展的重要趋势,中国当前对外贸易结构中以货物贸易为主的进出口结构、以加工贸易为主的贸易方式、以低技术含量为主的出口产品结构和以少数发达经济体为主的国际市场结构,显然已不能适应低碳经济发展的要求。但中国外贸结构要向低碳经济倡导的低能耗、低排放方向进行调整,将不得不面临失去低成本优势、贸易条件恶化和贸易规模受限等诸多困境。低碳约束下,注重考核贸易质量和出口效益、积极发展一般贸易、努力拓展新兴贸易和投资市场等,应成为中国对外贸易结构调整的重要内容。 Low-carbon economy has become an important trend in future world economic development. China’s current foreign trade structure mainly consists of the import and export structure with the main trade in goods, the trade mode mainly based on processing trade, the export product structure mainly based on low-tech content and The structure of the international market dominated by a few advanced economies obviously can no longer meet the requirements of a low-carbon economy. However, if China’s foreign trade structure is to be adjusted toward the low-energy consumption and low-emission advocated by the low-carbon economy, it will have to face such difficulties as the loss of low-cost advantages, the worsening terms of trade and the limited trade scale. Under low carbon constraints, paying attention to assessing the trade quality and export efficiency, actively developing general trade and making efforts to expand emerging trade and investment markets should become an important part of China’s foreign trade structural adjustment.