Does the foreign trade major have a future?

As a foreign trader who has worked for six years, I am not a novice, but I don't want to call myself an old bird, because there are still many things to learn.

But for this title, I have asked myself countless times, is there a future for foreign trade?

Let's share some of my views, hoping that people who are interested in this profession or will soon enter this professional position can be used as a reference.

As for foreign trade, at the beginning or even before China's entry into WTO, it was generally understood that B2B exported goods and a few technologies and services by sea, but all of them were mainly offline. Now it is called traditional trade. After China's entry into WTO, China's foreign trade exports have increased substantially, and it was in a state of trade surplus every year before 2008. The industrial chain related to foreign trade export has been established and improved rapidly, including logistics and transportation, production plants, inspection institutions, foreign trade companies, foreign offices, etc., which has developed rapidly and brought a lot of employment opportunities. Foreign trade majors are very popular.

However, under the great temptation of exporting this cake, many factories have joined in, but the homogenization of products is very serious, which increases market competition and dilutes profits. There are more and more suppliers that foreign customers can choose. Finally, fireworks are dazzling, and fewer and fewer enterprises concentrate on making products, which has evolved into a price war for customers. As a result, prices are getting lower and lower, and exporters compete with each other to lower market prices, forcing suppliers to cut costs. Logically speaking, this is a good thing, but cutting costs and reducing suppliers' profits also means that products may be inferior, and it is impossible to continuously innovate products and continuously export positive value.

In 2005, the use of the Internet became more and more common, and online trade contacts began to increase. Online wholesale is called B2B, and online retail is called B2C, which began to develop. 20 15 cross-border e-commerce trade has developed rapidly, and cross-border e-commerce was once heated up. Traditional foreign trade exports declined. Many suppliers turn to cross-border sales, which I understand as online foreign trade in the network age. Extended majors: e-commerce and other new university majors.

Back to the original thinking, is there a future for this major?

Traditional foreign trade is becoming more and more difficult to do, and online foreign trade competition is also growing. Do you want to do it or not?

For traditional foreign trade, the country has been emphasizing innovation, and future development can only be differentiated, and homogenization competition has no way out. If we insist on traditional foreign trade, I think we must persist in innovation and have core competitiveness (core technology) in order to go long-term. With regard to online foreign trade, with the rapid development of the global network and the acceleration of the pace of life, the trend of people shopping through the network is accelerating. The huge potential of overseas markets has also attracted more and more people to join the ranks of cross-border e-commerce.

The development of cross-border e-commerce B2B is becoming more and more stable. Different from traditional foreign trade, the core of traditional foreign trade lies in the sales ability of salesmen and the company's development strategy, while the core sales of e-commerce lies in online operation. The development direction is different, but all roads lead to the same goal. All forms of trade will eventually move towards consumer experience, truly make products, constantly innovate, enhance consumer experience, and grasp sales strategies. Whether it is cross-border e-commerce or traditional foreign trade, the prospects will not be bleak.

Foreign trade is just a profession, and there are many related industries, so my opinion is that foreign trade has no future and should be considered within the framework of each specific industry. The profession of foreign trade will never disappear, just be a top international foreign trade talent with a bright future; Either it is one of the positions that can be changed at any time, then talking about the future may really have no future or no way.

The above views are personal and are for reference only.