In the first half of the year, my country's service trade growth rapidly highlighted high -level openness vitality

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 4th News Analysis: In the first half of the year, my country's service trade growth faster showed high levels of openness

Xinhua News Agency reporters Xie Xiyao and Pan Jie

Services are everywhere, and service trade is an important part of international trade and an important area for international economic and trade cooperation. In the first half of the year, despite the severe and complex external environment, my country's service trade still handed over a dazzling transcript.

According to the data released by the Ministry of Commerce, in the first half of the year, the total import and export of my country's service imports and exports was 289.109 billion yuan, a year -on -year increase of 21.6%; of which service exports were 1405.95 billion yuan, an increase of 24.6%; imports were 1485.14 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%.

"In the first half of the year, the growth rate of service trade was faster, and the growth rate of 9.4%higher than the trade in goods reflected the highlights of my country's open economic growth." Said Li Jun, director of the Institute of International Services and Trade of the Ministry of Commerce.

Establish and improve the management system for the negative list of cross -border service trade, promote the construction of open platforms for the development of service trade innovation, continue to relax the market access of the service industry, and actively expand the import of high -quality services ... In recent years, my country has promoted the high -quality development of service trade, and the pace of openness has continued accelerate.

Zhao Ping analyzed by the Deputy Dean of the Research Institute of the China Trade Council saying that my country has adhered to high levels of opening up and continuously on high standards for international economic and trade rules, so that the service trade market space has been further developed, enterprise investment opportunities are more and business areas are wider. At the same time, the pace of my country's industrial transformation and upgrading has accelerated, prompting the integration and development of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, and driving the needs of service trade to increase.

Data show that in the first half of the year, my country's service exports increased by 5.7 percentage points, which drove the service trade deficit of 34.3%to 79.19 billion yuan.

"The increase in the share of service trade exports has shown that the internationalization of my country's service industry has further improved, and the international competitiveness of service trade has continued to rise." Zhao Ping said.

Talking about the service trade deficit, Zhao Ping said that in recent years, travel services are the largest market deficit in my country. In the short term, the significant reduction in the number of people's outbound tourists in my country is an important reason for the significant decline in my country's service trade deficit. With the adjustment of my country's service trade structure and the improvement of export competitiveness, the gradual narrowing of deficit and the trend of balance will be the general trend.

The continued growth of knowledge -intensive service trade is a major feature of my country's service industry. Data show that in the first half of the year, my country's knowledge -intensive service imports and exports were 1214.49 billion yuan, an increase of 9.8%. Among them, the export of telecommunications and information services increased by 16.3%.

"The knowledge -intensive service trade has maintained a steady growth, which reflects the trend of the booming digital economy in my country." Li Jun said that online services and online consumption such as audiovisual services, medical care, education, and online retail have increased significantly. Expand space for the growth of knowledge -intensive service trade.

Digital service trade is a highlight of my country's trade development in recent years, and it is also the direction of the country's strong support. A few days ago, the Ministry of Commerce and other 27 departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting the High -quality Development of Foreign Cultural Trade", which proposed 28 specific task measures to vigorously develop digital cultural trade, improve cultural trade cooperation mechanism, and improve the level of convenience. Trade development injected new driving force.

Li Jun said that with the further expansion of my country's service trade level, the level of liberalization and facilitation has been further improved, and technology, knowledge, and cultural -intensive service trade will grow further, which also brings new opportunities for the high -quality development of service trade.

Recently, the Ministry of Commerce and other departments have announced a number of new professional service export bases. As of now, my country's characteristic service export base has covered 7 areas including culture, Chinese medicine, digital services, human resources, geographical information, intellectual property rights and language services.

Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the construction of characteristic service export bases is an important measure to promote the high -quality development of China's service trade, which is conducive to fostering new advantages of service export competition, promoting professional service industries to expand opening to the outside world, enhance trade and trade and trade and trade and trade and trade Investment in the level of liberalization and facilitation.

In less than a month, the China International Services Trade Fair was about to open in 2022. China, which further opens the door, will definitely attract more "world services".

Looking forward to the future, Li Jun believes that in the face of a severe and complicated international environment, we must continue to do their own things, give full play to existing policies to promote the continued stable growth of service trade, continue to promote the construction of open platforms for the development of service trade innovation and development, and give full play to the service trade trade. It will wait for the leading role of open platforms to build a platform for domestic and foreign service providers to make big cooperation cakes.

Zhao Ping said that it is necessary to unswervingly expand high -level openness, build a wider system coverage in the field of service trade; continuously deepen the supply -side structural reform, further promote the upgrading of domestic industries, promote the in -depth integration of manufacturing and service industries; encourage enterprises Grand R & D and innovation, make good use of a new generation of information technology, and provide better "Chinese services" around the market needs.

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