Research On The International Competitiveness Of Transport Services Trade In China

International trade in services is the fastest growing areas in international trade. Over the past 30 years, the growth rate of services trade was bigger than that of the trade in goods in western developed countries. Transport services trade is the traditional department in services trade. Judging from our country, the transport services trade was growing quickly in recent years. And at the same time, the deficit between export and import become more and more bigger, and it has become the biggest source of the deficit of services trade. In order to improve and even reverse the deficit situation, it is need to analysis the deficit situation of the transport services trade.Based on the situation of the transport services trade, this paper analyzed the international competitive indexes of the transport services trade in China. For example, Normalized Trade Balance, Revealed Comparative Advantage Index, and so on. Finally, this paper made an empirical analysis about the influencing factors. The results showed that the trade in goods, technical personnel quantity, the number of inbound tourism, the number of port berths, the foreign-invested enterprises in China influenced the trade in transport services. On the basis of the analysis, some measures which would be useful to the development of China's transport services trade was proposed.