How China has become a big stage for the high -quality development of global service trade

Dong Shaopeng Securities Daily Deputy Chief Editor, Senior Researcher of the National People's Congress Chongyang Financial Research Institute

Recently, President Xi Jinping pointed out in the 2022 China International Services Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as the "Service Trade Association") that the service trade will be an important platform for China to expand, deepen cooperation, and lead innovation. The development of industry and service trade has made positive contributions. This indicates the prospects of functional positioning and development of the service trade meeting. With the slowdown of global economic growth, unstable, and increasing uncertain factors, China held up the banner of "open development, win -win cooperation", and continued to launch a series of major measures to inject vitality into the global economic stability recovery and increase certainty.

Data released by the Ministry of Commerce show that since 2012, China's service trade import and exports have grown steadily, with an average annual growth of 6.1 %, which is a global growth rate of 3.1 percentage points. China's total service trade has ranked second in the world for 8 consecutive years, and imports have ranked second in the world for 9 consecutive years. In the first half of this year, China's total service imports and exports reached 2.9 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.6 % year -on -year; of which, the total service export volume was 1.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 24.6 %. In the first half of the year, the service trade deficit continued to narrow to US $ 12.2 billion, and the new kinetic energy continued to emerge -the surplus of telecommunications, computers and information services was 9.1 billion US dollars, a year -on -year increase of 1.2 times, and the digital transformation of the service industry accelerated.

At this year's service and trade meeting, a total of 71 countries and international organizations were set up, an increase of 13 more than the previous session. Among them, 10 countries such as the UAE and Switzerland set up for the first time in the name of the country. More than 400 Fortune 500 and international leading companies participated offline, with an overall internationalization rate of 20.8 %. At the scene, new technologies, new achievements, new formats, and new models are dizzy: from automatic nucleic acid flash test robots to "Dreaming Space" Yuan Cosmic Game Museum; from smart emergency vehicles to enhanced reality virtual classrooms; from high -speed trains The "Fuxing" EMU goes to Xiamen Yuanhai 5G smart terminal; from human face recognition without contact printing, low -carbon cloud computor to ESG carbon footprint computing, green personal computer, and so on. At the service trade meeting, the vivid scenes of "introduction" and "going global", the exchange and interaction of "China Service" and "International Services", indicating that China ’s opening up to the outside world is unwaver The attractiveness of partners is increasing.

The essence of service trade is "good", that is, insisting on opening up and sharing, and providing excellent services, products, technology, brands, models, etc. through fair trade methods, provides more people to use Get reasonable profits and promote sustainable development. With the development and digital development of production and services, the demand for intensive product services, information services, and cultural and entertainment services has grown rapidly. Especially with the continuous evolution of the new crown pneumonia, the demand for such services has been further expanded.

As a large population country, China has obvious advantages in the field of service, especially the digital service field, and the products and services of related companies have gone at the forefront of the world. Based on the improvement of the quality of the whole people and the improvement of cultural consumption level, the development of Chinese cultural creativity, cultural consumption, and cultural tourism has also opened a huge market space. This constitutes the advantages of continuously improving the quality and expansion of related products and services in China. At the same time, cultural information products are an important carrier of the people's hearts. The good experience of users can promote trade growth, and trade growth in turn promotes the upgrade of customer experience. China has a large space in terms of further enhanced the service trade share of telecommunications, computers, and information.

This year's service trade will be continuously released by major open signals, including the formulation of a national version of cross -border service trade negative list, building a demonstration zone of the national service trade innovation and development, continuing to relax the market access of the service industry, actively expand the import of high -quality services Digital services, special services and other export bases, strengthen the construction of relevant laws and regulations and systems in the service field. These major measures are designed to build an institutional system that is relative to high -standard economic and trade rules. China hopes that serving trade, like other trade sectors, follow truly multilateralist thinking and promote equal and mutually beneficial and cooperative development in various countries.

At present, the pressure on the prevention and control of the epidemic is still relatively large. China has efficiently coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and the development of economic and social development. At the same time, it has taken practical and effective measures to promote the process of opening up. It is necessary to open up various blockages in the manufacturing field, but also to open up various blocks in the service field, restore the normal state of the service industry as soon as possible, enhance the service consumption scale required by residents, and promote a virtuous circle of economic.

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