A Research On The Competitive Power Of China's Service Trade And Countermeasures

Nowadays service trade is growing at a speed that is even higher than the growth of trade in goods, but the situation in our country is not in coordination with the situation in the world. Therefore, analyzing and evaluating the competition of service trade the China does help us how to develop our service trade and improve the competitiveness of our service trade. By using the comparative advantage and competitive advantage theory, the competitiveness and the factors having influence on the service trade of China are both analyzed. On the one hand, an analysis is made from the speed, size, structure of China's service trade, market share indicators, revealed comparative advantage index, Trade Competitiveness Index, as well as potential development index of China's service trade, and the conclusions are as follows: we don't own comparative advantage in service trade as a whole; as far as the service industries, we only own comparative advantage in tourism; though we don't own comparative advantage in transportation, the opportunity for its development is great; we do not have comparative advantage in other commercial services and the development of it is quite unstable. Then a qualitative Analysis is made by using the theory of Porter to explain why the service trade in China is developing so slowly. The shortages of advanced and professional production factors, the lack of effective demand, the undeveloped related and supporting industry, the unequal market competitive structure, the inappropriate government intervention and protection in service trade, as well as the intense international competitive environment are the main factors influencing the development of service trade in China. Finally, some useful suggestions on how to enhance service trade competitiveness in our country efficiently are given based on these conclusions, such as exerting the comparative advantage, fostering competitive advantages in trade services, and improving the advanced factors of production, strengthening the coordination and supporting mechanisms of related and supporting industries, breaking the monopolies in the market and creating a fair competitive environment, the establishment of appropriate status of the government in market, and actively developing the service outsourcing, and etc.