China's digital trade scale and surplus realize the "double rise", and still need to speed up the docking of high -standard trade rules

21st Century Business Herald Reporter Paying Wing Fei, Zhao Zijian intern Mo Yili Beijing reported

In recent years, China's digital economy has developed rapidly, driving the vigorous development of digital trade, providing a strong motivation for the impact of the global anti -new crown pneumonia's epidemic and the realization of economic and trade recovery.

On September 1, the 2022 Infucian Fair held a number of summit forums such as "Digital Trade Development Trends and Frontier" and "New Trends of the Open Development of Trade Trade" to explore new phenomena and opportunities for digital trade development. Data at the meeting showed that the total value of China's digital services in 2021 reached 359.69 billion US dollars, an increase of 22.3%year -on -year, accounting for 43.2%of the service import and export.

The 21st Century Economic Herald reporter noticed that China's digital service trade volume has achieved a surplus for 4 consecutive years from 2018 to 2021, and the difference continues to expand. In 2021, my country's digital service trade surplus was about 30 billion US dollars.

With the continuous deepening of digital trade development and cooperation in various countries, the global digital trade agreement network is strongly strengthened, China is also actively connecting with high -level international trade rules and focusing on promoting the innovative development of the digital trade field.

Digital trade surplus expands year by year

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Commerce, in 2021, my country's total service import and export value reached 5298.27 billion yuan (RMB), an increase of 16.1%year -on -year; of which service exports were 254.35 billion yuan, an increase of 31.4%; imports were 2754.77 billion yuan, an increase of 4.8%.

Wang Zhiqin, deputy dean of the China Institute of Information and Communication, pointed out at the meeting that the current foundation of China's service trade development is increasingly strong, and the value -added of the service industry accounted for more than 50%of the total domestic production value, and the scale of service supply has steadily increased. Moreover, under the advantages of the large -scale market, the integration of domestic and foreign trade has promoted the development of the domestic and international markets, creating good conditions for the service industry to go out.

With the rapid development of China's digital economy, cross -border digital service trade characterized by data as the production factors, digital services as the core, and digital delivery is also playing an increasingly important role.

The "Digital Trade Development and Cooperation Report 2022" released at the meeting showed that in 2021, the total value of China's digital service imports and exports reached 359.69 billion US dollars, an increase of 22.3%year -on -year, accounting for 43.2%of the service import and export.

It is worth noting that different from the long -term deficit of service trade, China's digital service trade volume has achieved a surplus for 4 consecutive years from 2018 to 2021, and the growth rate of digital service exports is significantly higher than imports. In 2021, the export scale of digital services reached 194.84 billion US dollars, a year -on -year increase of 26.2%; the import scale of digital service imports reached 164.84 billion US dollars, an increase of 18.1%year -on -year.

Luo Yuze, deputy minister of the Ministry of Economic Research of the State Council, told the 21st Century Economic Herald reporter at the meeting that the epidemic caused the potential and value of digital technology to be deeper. Service consumption demand has increased significantly. In the context of the great growth of global digital service demand, Chinese digital companies actively adopt new production and management models such as online office and online conferences to achieve re -production and re -production in a short period of time. Competitiveness in the international market.

In addition, the scale of China's digital trade is inseparable from the rapid breakthrough and wide application of a new generation of information technology. According to the data of Xinong Institute, as of the end of June 2022, the total number of China Mobile Communication Base Station reached 10.35 million, 5G base stations accounted for 17.9%, and 295,000 new 5G base stations were built in the second quarter of 2022; the total number of mobile users reached 1.67 billion households, 5G users accounted for Compared with 27.3%, 52.44 million households were added in the second quarter of 2022.

Xu Xiaolan, deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the meeting that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to increase the construction of 5G networks and Gigabit fiber optic fiber networks in accordance with the principles of moderate advancement, in -depth implementation of the industrial Internet innovation and development project, coordinating green intelligent data and green intelligent data and green intelligent data and green intelligent data and and layout Calculate facilities to provide a strong digital base for the development of digital trade.

It is worth noting that, as an important part of digital trade, in recent years, new formats such as cross -border e -commerce in my country have developed rapidly. During the epidemic period, my country's cross -border e -commerce has played online marketing, online transactions, and non -contact delivery. In terms of preparation, marketing, and insured share, it has played an important role.

The "China E -commerce Report (2021)" released at the meeting showed that in 2021, the total import and export of Chinese cross -border e -commerce reached 1.92 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.6%year -on -year, accounting for 4.9%of the total import and export. Among them, exported to 1.39 trillion yuan and imported 553 trillion yuan.

According to the data disclosed by the deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce Sheng Qiuping at the meeting, China's cross -border e -commerce performance in the first half of this year was even more prominent. The import and export of imports and exports increased by 28.6%year -on -year. my country's new foreign trade growth point.

However, Jiang Xiaojuan, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and deputy chairman of the Social Construction Committee, reminded that digital enterprises and e -commerce platforms in China are the most active and most competitive parts in the digital economy. Promote multiple co -governance to promote the healthy and sustainable development of cross -border e -commerce.

Regarding how to promote the development of cross -border e -commerce in the future, Jiang Xiaojuan gave five suggestions from the perspective of governance, including the important role of the e -commerce platform from the perspective of digital multinational companies, promoting the construction of an international operation compliance management system, and encouraging Commercial platforms and relevant departments conduct the innovation of e -commerce import business models, regulatory models, and relevant institutional mechanisms, allow more localities and enterprise pilot data cross -border flows, and to clarify the rules of traffic lights operating overseas as soon as possible to enhance enterprises Confidence and competitiveness. New progress in the formulation of China's participation rules

While the digital trade is booming, countries also urgently need to establish digital economic partnerships and formulate corresponding rules, so as to cope with subsequent arbitration, docking, and taxation.

Sheng Qiuping revealed at the meeting that the recent World Trade Organization, United Nations Trade Conference, Economic Cooperation Organization and International Monetary Fund established a joint working group to revise and improve the digital trade system manual with relevant countries. The delivery of trade and digital intermediate platforms empower trade, and it is expected that the manual will be officially released at the end of this year.

"The new version of the digital trade system manual will help clarify the connotation and boundary of digital trade, promote the research of policy research on digital trade, and have an important impact on the development of international comparative analysis and in -depth cooperation." Sheng Qiuping said.

"Digital trade rules are the most cutting -edge research fields at present. At present, there is no global unified system. China is currently working on the three platforms of RCEP, CPTPP and DEPA in the formulation of digital trade rules." Huang Xianhai, vice president of Zhejiang University, Tell the 21st Century Economic Herald reporter that RCEP has become China's highest commitment to digital rules in the field of digital trade. China also applied to add more rules to CPTPP and the most widely covered DEPA, which requires higher rules, which will help further consolidate its influence in the field of digital trade governance.

On August 18th, according to the decision of the "Digital Economic Partnership Agreement" (DePa) joint committee, China joined the DEPA working group to formally establish a comprehensive promotion of China to join DEPA negotiations. Many people in the industry regard this as a key node for China to participate in the construction of digital trade rules. It is the latest achievement in my country to accelerate digital development and promote the opening of the digital economy system.

However, Huang Xianhai reminded that China pays more attention to digital trade facilitation and improves the e -commerce environment in the negotiations. This is because its digital trade advantages mainly come from cross -border e -commerce formed through the development of the Internet platform. Methods such as cross -border communication information and dispute resolution are relatively diluted. In the future, based on China's own characteristics, try to carry out measures such as cross -border flow facilitation pilots in the free trade pilot zone.

"There are still large differences in the specific regulation arrangements of digital trade rules, but there is a considerable degree of consensus on the problems and roots in the process of formulating the rules." Luo Yuze said that in the future Cooperation platforms, equal dialogue and full communication on digital trade governance, accelerate the construction of an international rules and systems that meet the needs of digital trade development.

"In view of the formulation of digital trade rules, it may have multiple impacts on maintaining public policy goals, and it is necessary to strengthen consultations on wider coverage and more comprehensive mechanism platforms, such as G20 and BRICS cooperation mechanisms." Luo Yuze said.

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