Research On The Improvement Of Service Trade Institutions Of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone Under GATS System

China Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone was approved by the State Council officially in August 2013. This valuable testing ground plays an important role for the transformation of government functions and reformation for service trade, financial systems and other aspects of foreign investment. The main highlight of the establishment of Shanghai Free Trade Zone is service trade. From the legal framework, In view of GATS framework analysis of the current legal system of trade in services Shanghai free trade zone, the legislation of Shanghai Free Trade Zone is really mess and it is unsatisfactory from central to local.At present, "the General Agreement on Trade in Services" (GATS) is the most important and authoritative rule governing trade in services internationally which laid the foundation for legislation of domestic and international service trade. And most of the service trade agreements treat it as a template. Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone has not established international principles in GATS when making the relevant regulations. The legal framework needs to systemize. The status of central legislative is not clear and some relative conceptions are fuzzy. The local is badly in need of detailed rules.The standard of the most important document "negative list" of trade in services has not fit the international standard. Compared the negative list in version 2014 and the version 2013, we can find that opening degree of service industry improved, expression of some restrictions or prohibitions describe more clearly. But it still has shortcomings. Compared to legal framework of GATS and of Shanghai Free Zone, you can see the deficiencies of it.Aimed at the lack of laws and regulations guiding principle, incomplete legal system, negative listing liberalization is not enough, lack of transparency negative list industry classification rigorous problem in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, by drawing from the European Union, North America free trade area on the legal system for trade in services, we should establish the basic principle of legislation in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, perfecting its legal system and the system of local legislation supporting Shanghai free trade zone, improvement of negative listing in order to join the international service trade rules in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, perfecting legal system of trade in services Shanghai free trade zone.