Studies On The Improvement Of International Competitiveness Of China's Service Trade

A country's level of development of trade in services is the basis for the development of trade in services, while at the same time, the development of a country's trade in services is also the international expression of level of development of the domestic service.In the context of economic globalization, technological advances of Western countries have promoted the development of global services, so the status of services in the global economy gradually increased and the scale of trade in services also expanded.The early 1960s, the economic focus of major developed countries in the world began to transfer from manufacturing to services; industrial structure also showed the trend of changing from the industrial-based economy to a service-based economy.Since the 1990s, computer technology,which is as a symbol of the revolution in information technology, have made information industry, telecommunications and other services complete a qualitative leap and also make service industry into the world market through international trade. In the multilateral trade mechanism of the international trade, services has become a new focus in trade liberalization. For a long time, due to historical reasons of international and domestic environment, the position of China's service in the national economy has not received any attention and its service development is seriously lagging behind. As a result, it restricted the development of the entire national economy as a bottleneck. With the liberalization of international trade in services and China's accession to the World Trade Organization, the arrival of the transitional period, China is bound to reduce barriers to market access, gradually open up trade in services markets, implement national treatment to external resources, and allow foreign investment in banking, insurance, securities, telecommunications, transport, tourism, education, accounting, legal, consulting and other services. All in all will bring challenges to the development of China's service industry, thereby affecting China's international competitiveness in trade services.Therefore, under the current conditions of open economy, analyzing and assessing China's international competitiveness in trade services carefully, grasping the process of opening up services reasonable and effectively, taking participate in international competition and cooperation actively and promoting the service to a higher level, which has become an important and urgent research.So we need to make theoretical exploration and policy studies to solve the issue of our country's international competitiveness in trade services.The dissertation used the quantitative analysis, based on the thought of questions discovering, questions analyzing and questions resolving, and then summed up the present development situation and main interfering factors of international competitiveness in Chinese service trade. It pointed out that although Chinese service trade's development is fast and the import and export trend is good and rising, its internal competitiveness is still not strong enough due to some kinds of reasons. Finally, basing on those reasons, the dissertation figured out several suggestions to resolve the problems.There are five chapters altogether. The first chapter is introduction, in which the author put Chinese service trade's development into the environment of international market, introduced the background and summarized the existed researching fruits in this area. Meanwhile, the research methods and dissertation structure are introduced in this chapter. The second chapter focused on the concepts and main theories. In order to understand a problem's forming and developing, we should make clear its related concepts firstly. In this chapter,the author gave a detailed explanation of some concepts, such as service trade's definition, service trade's Classification and their characteries. What's important, the famous theory in academy of competitive advantage theory was interpreted in this chapter. The third chapter is the part of the problem.This chapter analyze two aspects of the development status of China's service trade from the volume and structure respectively. Meanwhile, the author pointed out that although the developing trend of Chinese service trade was satisfying, compared with developed even some other developing countries in the international market, its competitiveness is not strong enough. The fourth chapter is about analyzing the problem. The author illustrated some indices of our country's relative international competitiveness in service trade for quantitative comparative analysis. This part strengthened conclusions of the third Chapter that the international competitiveness of China's service trade should be strengthened.The fifth chapter is the part of resolving the problem. In this chapter, basing on the four parts and combing our current status of China's trade in services, the author figured out several suggestions from improving the competitiveness of human capital factors, optimizing the internal structure of services, introducing high-tech industries and strengthening the role of government.