According t o the current viewpoint in academic circle that China’ s export trade increases“in poverty” , after emp irical analysis of the relati on bet ween foreign direct invest ment ( FD I ) and internati onal trade growth and structure change of i mport - export p r oducts and so on, this paper indicates that the p r oporti on of the i mport - export trade of foreign enterp rises t o the whole China is increasingly grows and that FD I i mp r oves China’ s structure of exported p r oducts and increases China’ s competence of export p r oducts .