Shoes is a important large amount of exporting products in China, in 1998, China's shoes exporting amount is about USD 8,400,000,000.00 according to the custom's statistics, arranged after the clothing and textile products in the exporting of non-mechanical and electrical products. With the development by leaps of our country's shoes industry, promoting the shoes exporting to increase speedly. On the basis of custom's statistics, from 1994 to 1998, our country's shoes exporting is about USD 5,700,000,000.00, USD 6,280,000,000.00, USD 7,100,000,000.00, USD 8,500,000,000.00 and USD 8,400,000,000.00. At the beginning of this century, our country's shoes exporting would overfulfil USD 10,000,000,000.00.
   1. The basic characteristics of China's shoes exporting of recent years are belows:
   a. The processing trade exporting (especially the imported material processing trade) is the main trade mode. The proportion of the exporting amount of China's shoes processing trade in total amount of shoes exporting, in 1996 is 77.2%, in 1997 is 72.1%, in 1998 is 70%; among them, the proportion of the exporting amount of imported material processing in the exporting amount of all shoes processing trade, in 1996 is 79.8%, in 1997 is 78.3%, in 1998 is 77%.
   b. America is the main exporting market. China's shoes exporting markets are all over the world, but the American market is absolutly in lead. From 1996 to 1998, China has exported the shoes to America about USD 3,450,000,000.00 and USD 4,330,000,000.00, the proportion in total amount of shoes exporting is about 48.6%, 50.9% and 51.4% in proper order.
   c. The important areas of exporting are five provinces and one city along the coast. The proportion of shoes exporting amount in Guangdon, Fujian, Jiangshu, Zhejiang, Shandon and Shanghai is over 80% in total amount of China's shoes exporting.
   d. "Triple investment" enterprises are the biggest exporting parts. From 1996 to 1998, the proportions of "Triple investment" enterprises' shoes exporting in total amount of China's shoes exporting are 63.4%, 60.6% and 60% in proper order.
   2. The favourable factor to further develop the China,s shoes exporting. After joining into the WTO, on the basis of principles to most-favoured-nation treatment, the quantity restrictions on China's shoes exporting previously from the other countries will be cancelled.
   a. The prices of China's exporting shoes are still competitive and dominant. According to the measure and calculate, a lot of labour-intensive products' "competitive power coefficient" is bigger than 1 in China, "showing contrast advantage coefficient" is about 3.5 ( better than capital-intensive products). It's not nessary but also have the good conditions to develop the exporting of shoes in China.
   b. Exporting development potentiality is bigger than the other developing countries. China's shoes exporting is mainly imported material processing trade, but the other developing countries shoes manufacturing are basiclly the shoes processing factories of western transnational corporations, comparativly, the exporting development potentiality is less than China.
   c. Investment environment and related policy are favourable. In recently years, Chinese government has adopted some vigorous measures to keep the investment envirment and RMB'sexchange rate in stable, and increased the exporting products' drawback rate. It has provided the favourable conditions to the shoes exporting for stable developing.
   d. The China's shoes manufacturing have the abundant strength. One is the manufacturing craft has almost no gaps with the developed countries. Two is the output of the shoes is the leadship in the world. In 1997, the total output of the shoes in China is about 50% of the world, and production ability is larger than the output now available.