Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, August 19th. Recently, the executive meeting of the State Council decided to comprehensively deepen the pilot service trade innovation and development, and formally approved and issued the "Comprehensive Deepening of the Service Trade Pilot Program". On the 19th, the Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference on interpreting the comprehensive deepening of the innovative development of service trade. Director Xian Guoyi pointed out that the epidemic will have a profound impact on the global service trade pattern, consumption patterns and consumption habits. Trade in services Development is in danger, and the competitiveness of China's service trade continues to increase, and the long-term trend of improvement remains unchanged.
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A reporter asked at the meeting: Since the outbreak, the cross-border movement of people has been blocked, and the import and export of travel services worldwide has been significantly affected. How do you view the development prospects of service trade this year? What new opportunities will the "Plan" bring to the development of service trade?
Xian Guoyi replied that since the beginning of this year, the global outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has affected the trade in services. In the first half of the year, the scale of China's service trade declined, but the overall trend was stabilizing, showing development resilience and vitality. Service exports performed significantly better than imports, and also better than other major service exporting countries, especially knowledge-intensive service exports. The growth rate of the export of emerging services such as intellectual property royalties, insurance services, telecommunications and computer and information services were all above 15%. The overall service export decline was 19.5 percentage points less than that of imports, which led to a 46.1% decline in the service trade deficit, a year-on-year decrease of 344 billion yuan.
Xian Guoyi pointed out that at present, the domestic epidemic prevention and control has achieved major strategic results, but the overseas epidemic is still spreading, the world economy is severely recessed, and international demand has shrunk sharply. The situation facing my country's service trade development in the second half of the year is still severe and complex. However, we must also see that the epidemic will have a profound impact on the global service trade pattern, consumption patterns, and consumption habits. The development of service trade is organic and the competitiveness of my country's service trade continues to increase, and the long-term trend of improvement has not changed.
Xian Guoyi said that this comprehensive deepening of the pilot program will bring at least three opportunities: First, market expansion opportunities, comprehensively expanding opening to promote the formation of a large market, and promoting the formation of a new development pattern with domestic and international cycles as the main body and mutual promotion of domestic and international cycles. , To create a broader market space for domestic and foreign service providers.
The second is innovation and development opportunities. The export of emerging services such as digital trade, copyright transactions, and online education has become new growth points. The producer service industry is more closely and more efficiently embedded in the global industrial chain supply chain through offshore outsourcing, bonded research and development, and bonded testing. Attract domestic and foreign resource elements to be more fully invested in new business forms and new models.
The third is an opportunity for international cooperation. The pilot program provides a broader space for China to deepen service trade cooperation with partners such as the “Belt and Road” initiative. It can be said that the pilot project will not only promote the high-quality development of China's service trade, but also inject new momentum into the development of global service trade. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)