A Brief Study on the Problems and Development Countermeasures of China’s International Trade Talents Training

Abstract

Since the 1990s, it gradually becomes a new approach in the field of international economics to study trade activities from the perspective of human resources. Many scholars believe that the gap of income inequality between two countries increasing or decreasing depends on the trade pattern between the two countries, but in the final analysis, it depends on the state of human capital allocation in both countries. Therefore, human resources are of great significance to the international trade. With China’s opening-up policy to the outside world becoming deeper and deeper, there is an increasing demand for international trade talents, and the skilled talents in international economic and trade fields have become scarce talents. However, at present, many universities’ international trade graduates find it difficult to get employed, and companies just lack talents in that fields. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the international trade talents trained in colleges and universities are out of touch with the social needs, which caused the phenomenon that graduates majored in international trade can’t be used by companies and companies lack talents in the field of international trade but dare not employ the graduates. To study this phenomenon, this paper finds that the teaching objective is not clear in colleges and universities; most colleges and universities pay much attention to theoretical teaching instead of practical teaching and lack teacher allocation. What’s more, the curriculum is not reasonable enough. So the colleges and universities should take some measures; they should cultivate talents to be familiar with international business processes and specific operations, international trade negotiation and communication skills, and to be familiar with international trade laws and practices. They also should guide students to get some professional certificates.