Research On The Open Interest Of China 's Construction Service Under The Reconstruction Of Service Trade Rules

Doha Development Agenda has suffered an impasse after failing to reach a compromise onagricultural import rules, while the rules of trade in services whose structure is dominated byGATS can not meet the development requirement of service trade liberalization. With theemergence of multilateral or bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) talks, TPP, TTIP and TISAdominated by the United States are changing the precious structure of trade in services rules. Newtalks on trade of services rules seek to push trade rules on higher standard so as to promote servicetrade liberalization in the future. The renewal of “game rules” may impact the immature servicesmarket in China, but it also could bring benefits to China from the further opening up. In China,construction services has always been a sector with the comparative advantage which has broughtconsiderable trade surplus to China so that precautions should be taken before a freer tradeenvironment comes into being.Through the evaluation system to calculate the opening up benefit, this thesis is on theresearch of the role which construction services sector has played in the restructuring process ofservice trade rules and the specific benefit from further opening up and finally puts forwards tradestrategies accordingly. Firstly, based on the level of internalization, competitiveness research, therole which this sector should play in this restructuring process of of service trade rules can bejudged, in other words, the competitiveness of this sector throughout the world can be judged. Italso indicates that construction services sector in China has occupied considerable market sharethroughout the world and competitiveness has advanced, but asymmetry between the marketoccupation and trade interests still remains. At this critical moment and as a sector withcompetitiveness, China should seek to benefit more from opening up. Then, according to thetheory of opening up benefit,four dimensions, economic benefit, technological innovation,consumer benefit and national security, are selected to study the opening up benefit in this sector.Through the evaluation system to calculate the opening up benefit and evaluate the potentialbenefit, it can be concluded that in a freer trade environment, higher openness will bring morebenefit. Finally, starting with the analysis on the international trade barriers in constructionservices and domestic construction services market level,the thesis puts forwards relevant“bringing in” and “going out” strategies to tackle with the renewal of game rules. Therefore, Chinashould take a positive and cautious approach to open up the market gradually. Such invisible tradebarriers in services as government purchasing and technical standards are two critical conflicts between developed countries and China and hence these difficulties should be tackled seriously sofurther opening up may help promote domestic reform; Meantime, laws and regulations as well asinnovative management system in the sector of construction services should be improved andperfected while domestic standards should meet the international standards as soon as possible.Through all of these domestic reform measures, it will promote the market opening up to a higherdegree so that China could achieve more benefit in the end.