An Analytical Study On The Development Of Chinese Higher Education Service Trade Of Consumption Abroad

As the explosion of education service trade, international education service trade has brought about great trade income as a main department of service trade for many countries. However, the development of home education service trade is very slow and contributes little to the fast growth of international trade. Not only home universities do not pay enough attention to the market of international education export, but also the government does not give enough support to this new kind of trade form which can be informed from the scarcity of statistics of eduction service trade. All the home studies on education service trade are theoretical with no numerical support as a result of statistics scarcity. Therefore, this thesis aims to estimate the level of home higher education export service of consumption abroad, which is the main kind of international education service trade, based on the calculation result of its export figures.Higher education export service of consumption abroad is performed as foreign students’study in China. There are four forms of education service trade based on GATS’classification of service trade, and consumption abroad service is the largest scaled form which made it this thesis’objective of study. To be more specific, I chose higher education rather than basic education or secondary education as the study subject because it has larger trade scale in the world wide.This thesis consists of six parts. Firstly, introduce the background of the topic. Secondly, introduce the basic theory of education service trade. Thirdly, introduce the development of Chinese higher education export service of consumption abroad. Fourthly, model the index system and estimated the basic figures. Fifthly, analyse development level based on the index system. Lastly, draw conclusion and bring about some suggestions on improving home higher education export service of consumption abroad. The main innovation of this thesis is on the research method, which firstly estimate the figure of Chinese higher education export service of consumption abroad, and build the index system to compare with other developed countries.