The Influence Of Digital Service Trade Barrier On China’s Digital Service Trade Competitiveness

The combination of digital technology and economic operation models has had a profound impact on the digital transformation of trade in services.However,while digital service trade is developing rapidly,it is facing new trade risks and a series of digital service trade barriers have been derived,which will adversely affect China’s digital service trade and the innovative development of digital economy,thus affecting its international competitiveness.According to the DSTRI Index published by OECD database,China has a high level of digital services trade barriers,much higher than developing countries such as India and developed countries such as Europe and the U.S.In March 2021,the National "The 14 th Five-Year Plan proposes to vigorously develop the digital economy,promote the integration of traditional industries and digital industries,facilitate industrial transformation,and establish a new type of service industry system.With the development of the times,the close integration of digital technology and service trade is a major task for the future economic development of China.Therefore,the various trade barriers currently facing China’s digital service trade are necessary for a systematic analysis of their development status and trends in order to promote the competitiveness of China’s digital service trade.This thesis takes Melitz’s(2003)heterogeneous enterprise theory as the theoretical basis,applies it innovatively to the digital service trade level,and establishes a theoretical model to analyze the theoretical mechanism and deductive derivation of mathematical model on the influence mechanism of digital service trade barriers on the competitiveness of digital service trade.Meanwhile,the OECD-DSTRI database,panel data for 8 years from 2014 to 2021,is selected to construct an empirical analysis model to explore the impact of digital service trade barriers on the competitiveness of digital service trade.The results show that digital services trade barriers inhibit the improvement of digital services trade competitiveness.Firstly,this thesis summarizes the current situation and characteristics of digital service trade barriers in the sample economies from two perspectives: overall digital service trade barriers and sub-domains.Secondly,this thesis analyzes the current situation of digital services trade competitiveness in the sample economies from two perspectives: the overall digital services trade competitiveness and the sub-sectoral digital services trade competitiveness by combining the index analysis method.Again,this thesis uses Stata15.0 to set up an empirical model based on the theoretical model with corresponding variables and conducts systematic empirical econometric analysis.Finally,this thesis gives the corresponding policy suggestions for the current situation of digital service trade barriers and the current problems of digital service trade competitiveness in China and the empirical results from the five major segments and six major industries of digital service trade barriers.