中文摘要：

对于我国这样的具有较高外贸依存度的国家来说，优化出口产品结构、提升出口贸易长期竞争力仍然是当前面临的重要挑战。本文基于1998年至2012年我国30个省市的面板数据，以各省市高技术产业出口比重作为考察对象，分别从能够体现金融发展特征的金融效率、金融结构以及金融规模这三个方面考察分析我国东、中、西部地区的金融发展对出口结构的优化作用。实证结果表明，我国各区域金融发展水平的进步有助于出口结构的优化。同时，研究结果显示衡量我国金融发展水平的不同指标对出口结构的优化作用存在显著的区域差异，这为我国各地区制定优化出口结构的政策提供了新的依据。

英文摘要：

For China which is a country possessing high dependence on foreign trade, optimizing export structure and improving export competitiveness are still important chal- lenges we are confronted with at present. This paper studies the impact of financial development on the export structure based on China＇s regional perspective. We investigate the role of finance development on export structure by regressing core explanatory variables which represent financial efficiency, financial structure and financial size respectively with the proportion of exports of high-tech industries. The research result indicates that China＇s financial development makes contribution to optimizing export structure. At the same time, there exist regional differences among the impacts of financial development on the export structure, which provides new perspectives for each region of China to develop policies that are helpful for optimizing export structure.