Short Board Of Foreign Trade: Accelerating The Development Of Service Trade

Although Jiangsu is a big province of foreign trade, the export of service industry seems very "shy". According to incomplete statistics, in 2013, the province's service trade was exported around 70 billion dollars, accounting for only about 12% of the total import and export volume. By the end of last year, the figure had been sharply reduced due to changes in statistics.

The service trade department of the Provincial Department of Commerce said that the service industry has been developing rapidly in recent years, but the "short board" has not changed fundamentally for many years. Comparatively speaking, the export scope of service trade in our province is narrow, mainly concentrated in the fields of service outsourcing, engineering and labor export.

To observe Jiangsu's service trade and service outsourcing is a bright spot. Since 2009, the scale of service outsourcing has ranked first in the country for 6 consecutive years. In November of last year, the service outsourcing reached US $16 billion 200 million, an increase of 26.3% over the same period last year. Business forms include business process outsourcing, information technology outsourcing and knowledge process outsourcing, ranging from software services, animation and creative ideas to industrial design, pharmaceutical research and development, supply chain management, financial backstage services, etc., and expand the scope. The implementation of information technology outsourcing in Nanjing's information technology level accounts for 72% of the total amount of service outsourcing. Suzhou's knowledge process outsourcing accounts for 50% of the R & D capability.

Nevertheless, the development of service outsourcing in our province is also faced with many constraints, such as the transformation and development of enterprises, the lack of dislocation in various regions, the lack of incentives and constraints.

Service trade is regarded as an important index to measure the competitiveness of a country and a region. Compared with trade in goods, most of them are more green and have higher added value. Experts have shown that most of the developed countries' service trade is quite developed. As the world's largest service trading country, the total trade in services in the United States amounted to 11323 billion US dollars in 2013, accounting for about 30% of the total import and export volume. In 2014, the scale of China's service trade was only about half that of the United States.

"Service trade covers a wide range of fields, almost everything. There are many bottlenecks in the development of export of service trade. The service trade department of the Provincial Department of Commerce said that the first is the top-level arrangement, and there is no special system and law in the field of service trade in China. foreign trade law "Mainly deals with trade in goods. As a result, even the most basic statistical work can not be carried out. It can only borrow a sub item of the balance of payments system of the foreign exchange administration, which is neither comprehensive nor standardized.

"Competing for the right to speak in international trade is more important than quality, and service trade is an important factor in improving the quality of foreign trade." Zhu Naixin, a researcher at the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said that France and Italy had clothing The leather bag is made. Luxury goods Service has played an important role, highlighting elements such as culture, design, brand and so on. Our province's exports are mainly goods, while Jiangsu's manufacturing is mostly processing trade. To enhance competitiveness and transform from a big trade province to a strong trade province, we must speed up innovation and vigorously develop service trade while upgrading the export grade.

The new deal of the State Council has boosted the confidence of the relevant parties in our province to make service trade "cake".