A Study On China's Competitiveness On Trade In Service

In 1994 ,General Agreemento on Tariff and Trade (GATT) Uruguay Round negotiation has passed through General Agreement on Trade in Service (CATS),which symbolizes the world economy has entered into a new historical period—service economy. Service trade shows its more and more important standard to measure a country's international competitiveness. Since reform and open, our trade in service develop quickly and Its scale expanded. However, due to our low starting point for the development of the service industry, late start, the small base, the overall competitiveness of the relatively backward.Besides, after the WTO entry, we have to lower market entering barriers, open service market progressively, allow foreign capital entering and implement national treatment,which will bring strong challenge to the development of our service.Therefore, anaiyzing and assessing the competitive force of our service trade will not only provide objective foundation for government taking rational economical policy, but also do good to instruct the government of service trade, reduce deficit of service trade, enhance our economic force.First,this article recommends the basic conceptions of trade in services and their characteristic,current situation and characteristic that development of international service trade trend and our country service trade develop.The second, it applies separately the traditional comparative advantage theory and competitive advantage theory into the domain of the trade in service as the basic theory of the studies on international competitiveness of service trade.Comparativea advantage is the precondition to gain the competitive advantage,and the competitive advantage is able to transform the potential comparative advantage into the realistic one.The third,the paper analyzes the International competitiveness of service trade. It sets up an index system basing on the service data of import and export, which is composed of four indexes such as Trade competitive Power Index, Revealed Comparative Advantage index,Competitive Advantage, Net Export Revealed Comparative Advantage index, makes a close of industrial and worldwide comparative analysis of our service trade competitiveness with eight sample economic zones.The result indicates that the competitiveness of our service trade is comparatively low and the international competitiveness of each industry is different.Except for tourism and other commercial service have strong export competitive force, other items' are weak, especially finance, insurance, patent, information and so on,which is belong to service trade field of high additional value.At last,the serves to put forward the policy suggestions to improve the international competitiveness on trade in service of our country.