| Since the 1990 s,with the development of economic globalization,many emerging service industries are emerging,and the world’s service trade has developed rapidly.It has played an important role in promoting the growth of a country’s economy,optimizing and upgrading the industrial structure,and alleviating employment pressure.Although the import and export volume of service trade in China has been growing at a high rate in recent years,there are still many problems.First,due to the small base of trade in services,the proportion of total trade is still low.Second,developed countries not only have a large export volume of service trade,but also export products mainly with high value-added technology-intensive products,as a developing countries China mainly exports labor-intensive products with low technological content,so their competitiveness has a big gap with that of developed countries.Third,the deficit of China’s service trade is increasing.How to continuously optimize the industrial structure,promote the increase of service trade exports,change the trade deficit,and promote the rapid and stable development of service trade has become an urgent problem in China.This paper selects five indicators including international market share(MS),trade competitive advantage index(TC),revealed comparative advantage index(RCA),revealed competitive advantage index(CA),and net export revealed comparative advantage index(NRCA)to compare and analyze the international competitiveness of service trade for the world’s top ten countries in terms of import and export of service trade.Based on the multinational panel data of 92 countries from 1997 to 2016 and Michael Porter’s diamond model,revealed competitive advantage index and net export revealed comparative advantage index are used as the explained variables and the service industry employment ratio,per capita GDP,urbanization level,total export of goods,service industry development level and service openness are used as explanatory variables to conduct empirical analysis to study the influencing factors of international competitiveness of service trade in developed and developing countries.Finally based on empirical results corresponding policy recommendations for the improvement of the international competitiveness of service trade in China are put forward,including: vigorously improving the level of opening up of trade in services,accelerating the cultivation of talents in the field of service trade,expanding domestic and international market demand,strongly promoting the development of modern service industry. |
