Research On International Competitiveness Of Transportation Service Of China

With the development of economic globalization, not only trade in goods has developed continuously, but also world trade in services has been developed rapidly. The structure of global trade is inclined to trade in services. This shows that the status of trade in services is rising. The emphasis of trade in services provides a good opportunity for developing. Transportation service has always been deemed to be extremely important. It will not only directly affect the national balance of payments, but also plays an important part in international merchandise trade.After China's entry into WTO, important changes have taken place in the competitive environments that China's trade in service faced. On the one hand, it is necessary to improve China's international transportation service's competitive ability to optimum the industry's interest under multilateral trade system in the context of economic globalization. On the other hand, it brings challenge for the development of China's transportation services. With the transportation service market opening, it is not hard for the foreign trade enterprises to enter China's market, which intensifies the domestic market competition.As we all know, trade in services is from trade in merchandise. Merchandise trade growth can stimulate trade in services. The absolute amount of trade in services is still growing. Particularly, China and other developing countries have the potential of growth in trade in services. But in recent years, service trade's deficit of China is growing while China's foreign goods trade's surplus have been growing. Transportation service's deficit is larger and larger, which is becoming an important source of the international trade's deficit. It will be necessary to promote the country's transportation service.The paper is divided into six parts:Chapter One introduce the purpose and significance of the study, then mainly introduce the status of researches, including domestic and foreign scholarly researches. At last the structure and research technique of the paper will be described.Chapter Two focuses on the theory of trade. The author mainly use the theory of competitive advantage. At the same time, the author introduce three indexes of international competitiveness.Chapter Three mainly carries on from two aspects. On the one hand, the situation of development of transportation of China will be described. On the other hand, the paper will analyze the situation of International Competitiveness of Transportation Service of China.Chapter Four puts attention to analyze the transportation service by quantitative analysis. This part analyzes the international competitiveness by Market Share index, Trade Competition index and Revealed Comparative Advantage index. This analysis shows that the international competition ability of transport service of China is weak.Chapter Five, according to the above analysis of transportation services of China, this part mainly analyze the factors affecting China's transport in services, including favorable and unfavorable factors.Chapter Six pays attention to how to increase international competition ability of China service trade and this paper put forward some suggestions.