The Comparisons Of The Competitiveness Of Services Trade Among China And Six Countries Along Maritime Silk Road

With the realization of various free trade agreements,the wave of globalization has brought about rapid development of services trade.The research on the competitiveness of services trade among countries has become a new field of scholars'academic researches.Following the implementation of "the Belt and Road",the services trade development of China has entered a new stage.The study is based on a comparative analysis of services trade between China and India,Japan,Korea,Malaysia,Poland and Russia.Up to now,the relevant research still exist blank,which is the purpose of this paper.Furthermore,there are theoretical and practical significance to explore the development of China's service trade and how to improve it by comprehensively analyzing besides the services trade development of China with the six countries but the level of competitiveness and the influencing factors.The idea of this paper is:First of all,defines and combs the connotations and related theories of services trade competitiveness based on the domestic and foreign scholars' research results.Secondly,through the analysis of the overall developments of services trade between China and the six countries,forming the primary cognition of the economic developments.Further compares similarities and differences by comparing the competitiveness index of services trade and the calculation of the exports technology structure;Thirdly,through the empirical analysis of influence factors about competitiveness of services trade,finds out the different factors affect the export volume and the exports technology structure,and through compares the influence factors between the high competitive countries and the low competitive countries,further clarifying the influence factors of different types of countries.Finally,based on the above research,puts forward some policy suggestions to improve the competitiveness of China's services trade.The results of this paper show:Firstly,the developments of services trade in China,India and Poland are in the stage of rapid growth whose development prospects are optimistic,and the rest of the countries in a more stable development trend.Secondly,India,Japan,Korea and Poland whose competitiveness are stronger than China,especially India which is very competitive in emerging services trade sector.Thirdly,the development level of goods trade,natural resource endowment,innovation ability,freedom of services trade and per capita income level are the factors which affect the exports of services trade.The level of foreign direct investment,trade in goods,human capital and freedom of trade are the factors affect exports technology structure.Fourthly,freedom of services trade,per capita income and human capital are discrepant for different competitive countries,but for China,there is showing a high correlation between the level of goods trade with service trade and exports technology structure,which reflects that the producer services develop with service trade.