Analysis On Comparative Advantages Of Higher Education Service Trade In Hunan Province

Having entered WTO, Hunan Provincial higher education service trade is faced with fierce challenges and appears inferiority in its various trade forms. How to develop the trade is a big problem. So this thesis tends to illustrate higher education service trade by using the logic and connotation of the classic Comparative Advantage Theory to link the traditional merchandise trade theory and theory of higher education service trade. It tries to establish a new analysis by setting up an evaluation index and system of Hunan Provincial higher education service trade.In the realistic international trade, the market is incomplete competition structure. So first the thesis analyzes the exiting Comparative Advantage Theory and the definition and theory of higher education service trade. Attention is paid to the discussion of Comparative Advantage Theory in the field of education service trade. On these bases, the essential factors of comparative advantage should consider factor endowments, technical factors, consumer preference, educational supply, the effects of policy on the market, etc. Secondly the thesis establishes the comparative advantages of Hunan Provincial higher education service on educational supply in the field of overseas students'service, which includes economical and geographic factor, service quantity and quality, service price, ideology and organizational system on running colleges. The comparative advantages on educational demand lie in consumer preference, attraction of average income consumers, demanding habits, mass media effects, etc. The advantages could also be found in the professional educational service quality,such as these in the field of agriculture, natural science, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, military affairs, Chinese medicines and mass media. Eventually Hunan province is prospective in developing its higher education services when the advantages and disadvantages are aware and realized in the practice. Through the textual analyses and illustration, this thesis presents some advice to develop Hunan higher education service trade and to improve its international competition.