自20世纪90年代中期以来的近20年，广东外经贸经历了20世纪90年代后期东南亚金融危机和2008年国际金融危机的冲击，贸易结构及竞争力正在发生变化。本报告按照所含要素密集程度把出口产品分为资源密集型、劳动密集型、资本密集型、技术密集型4类，然后分别考察其贸易结构和竞争力变化；运用显示性比较优势指数和贸易竞争力指数测算各类出口产品的竞争力，结果表明：首先，广东整体出口竞争力有所提高，其中，劳动密集型产品国际竞争力比较强，主要体现在具有传统优势的加工制造业上，如纺织服装、陶瓷等，但出口产品仍处于价值链底端；其次，技术密集型产品具有一定的显示性竞争优势，但属于外资控制，拥有自主高新技术的装备制造业的竞争力不强；最后，资本密集型产品的竞争力比较弱，资源密集型产品的国际竞争力最弱。
The foreign economy and trade of Guangdong has been impacted by the south-east Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s and the international financial crisis in 2008 during the recent 20 years since middle 1990s，with its trade structure and competitiveness being changed. In this report，all the export products are divided into four types：resource-intensive products，labor-intensive products，capital-intensive products and technology-intensive products，according to the factor intensities of themselves and then to be studied on the change of their competitiveness. RCA index and TC index are applied to measure the competitiveness of different types of the export products. The results show that the overall export competitiveness of Guangdong has been improved. Among，the competitiveness of labor-intensive products is strong，which is principally embodied in the manufacturing industries with traditional advantages like textile，clothing and ceramics. However，these export products remain in the bottom of the value chain. Second，a certain degree of revealed competitive advantage can be seen in technology-intensive products. This type of products are controlled by foreign capital，thus the equipment manufacturing industries with independent high and new technologies are lack of competitiveness. Last，competitiveness of capital-intensive products is weak while that of resource-intensive products come the weakest.
