On The Devdlopment Of Chinese Educational Service Trade

Recently, the economic profit of international education has attracted attention of both educational and economical industry. Education service evolvement is making more and more impacts on international economy, and bringing great opportunities to capable countries. The prototype of education service was commercial cultural/educational exchange. In the1970s, some developed countries eg. USSR, offered China with educational aid, including overseas courses for foreign students, and onsite professional training/assistance. Interestingly, the education services were usually bundled with political and diplomatic policies; therefore the services are more political oriented. In the end of1980s, the international economic structure undertook great changes. Education service became more important in international business. Nowadays, it has become an important part of soft power in international trading and competition. Also, education service was regarded as a profitable industry in the Britain, who first started to charge “tuition fees” to international students, followed by US and Australia.It has been30years for China’s open‐up, China is playing much more important role in international business. The number of international students in China has increased from43,000to238,000during the period between1998and2009, with the speed of20%annually. At the same time, Chinese are sending more students overseas. In2003, there are3.1million Chinese students overseas, in2020, there will be about5.8millions, increasing by87%. Unsurprisingly, the trade deficit is making China losing significant amount of money. International students in China are more likely to study language and arts, while Chinese students overseas usually study science, business, and management. In general the trade deficit ratio is1:10.72, which means with every dollar China make from education service,10.72dollars is spent on overseas education. China has become the biggest education market in the world.We organize the thesis into five chapters. The first chapter is instruction, in which we address how the topic is chosen, and review related works. In addition, the structure, methodology, contribution, and further research directions were introduced.In the second chapter, we discuss the education service and WTO policies. We will study the history and content of WTO education business policies in details.In the third chapter, we focus on the evolvement of education service in China. With the review of history in China education service, we figured out the major problems, which are structural bias and competitiveness of education service.Analysis of China education service competitiveness is presented in the fourth chapter. We compare the competiveness of education service between China and developed countries, and find out the advantages that China have, like regional culture, dominate subjects, etc. and disadvantages like recognition and educational resource management.In Chapter5, some further thoughts were made. With the comparison of international education service policies under WTO, we have provided three thoughts and suggestions to China education service:1. improve the structure of education service, increase the competitiveness;2. carefully adjust the openness of education service;3. build up some world class universities.