China's Higher Education Services Trade International Competitiveness Research

In today’s world,the trend of economic globalization and trade liberalization is moreand more conspicuous. Service trade began to replace merchandise trade.Service trade hasbecome the center of the world economy. Education service trade which is an importantpart of international service trade,naturally was taken as development priority of most ofthe country. Higher education as an industry,the role is to product and innovateknowledge,to nurture the human capital.Higher education not only has social and politicalfunctions,but also has significant economical function,which attach great attention of theworld.But China’s education service trade whose competitive is weak, is laggingbehind.Along with the accelerated pace of world economic integration,China’s educationservice trade will be largely affected by this trend.So it’s very important to study thedevelopment of China’s higher education service trade,and enhance their internationalcompetitiveness.This thesis is based on education services trade and international competitivenesstheory,through qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis to analyze internationalcompetitiveness of higher education service trade.To make clear China’s competitive levelsand gaps of education service trade,in order to improve the international competitivenessof education service trade in the future.This thesis is going to analysize it from thefollowing perspectives:firstly,analysize the status quo of our country’s higher educationservice trade.Secondly,use three commonly used indexes of international competitivenessevaluation to obtain the competitiveness of each countries,and then compare the threeindexes of China with those of developed countries.Thirdly,based on the DiamondModel,analyzes the influence of each factor on China’s higher education service tradethrough linear regression model.Finally, on the basis of above analysis,learning from the successful experience ofdeveloped countries,and puts forward suggestions to promote the development of China’shigher education service trade.