加快提升我国服务贸易竞争力的国际经验借鉴

Reference from international experience on accelerating the improvement of China’s competitiveness in trade in services

服务贸易作为贸易高质量发展的重要标志,既是推动贸易增长的新引擎,也是推动产业迈向全球价值链中高端的关键环节。当前,随着世界百年未有之大变局加速演进,大国博弈和地缘冲突加剧,世界各国参与国际竞争的焦点逐渐从货物贸易拓展到服务贸易领域。提升服务贸易竞争力,一方面是我国加快从贸易大国迈向贸易强国、参与全球价值链的重要引擎;另一方面,是应对百年未有之大变局、提高国际规则话语权的必然要求。我国虽然抓住了加入WTO的历史机遇,深度融入全球经济,实现了服务贸易的持续快速增长,已连续11年稳居全球第二服务贸易大国地位,但服务贸易发展不平衡不协调、生产要素保障不足、开放水平有待提升等问题仍较为突出,制约我国服务贸易国际竞争力提升。当前,亟需借鉴美国、日本、德国等世界服务贸易强国发展经验,加快提升我国服务贸易国际竞争力,在新一轮国际贸易竞争格局中抢占制高点。

As an important symbol of high-quality trade development,trade in services is not only a new engine to promote trade growth,but also a key link to promote the industry to move towards the middle and high end of the global value chain.At present,with the acceleration of the evolution of the world’s profound changes unseen in a century,the great power game and geopolitical conflicts are intensifying,and the focus of international competition in all countries has gradually expanded from trade in goods to trade in services.To enhance the competitiveness of service trade,on the one hand,it is an important engine for China to accelerate its transformation from a trading country to a trading power and participate in the global value chain;on the other hand,it is an inevitable requirement to cope with the profound changes unseen in a century and improve the discourse power of international rules.Although China has seized the historical opportunity of joining the WTO,deeply integrated into the global economy,achieved sustained and rapid growth in service trade,and has been ranked as the world’s second largest country in service trade for 11 consecutive years,the unbalanced and uncoordinated development of service trade,insufficient guarantee of production factors,and the need to improve the level of openness are still relatively prominent,restricting the improvement of the international competitiveness of China’s service trade.It is urgent to learn from the development experience of the United States,Japan,Germany and other world service trade powers,accelerate the improvement of China’s international competitiveness in service trade,and seize the commanding heights in the new round of international trade competition.