CCTV News: Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows that in 2024, my country's service trade achieved rapid growth, with the total annual service import and export volume exceeding US$1 trillion for the first time, setting a record high in scale, and the structure continued to be optimized, showing broad development potential.
Experts interpret: Develop service trade and continuously improve the level of institutional opening up
Driven by the wave of global digitalization, intelligence and green development, China continues to push service trade to a new level with high-level opening up. In the next step, how will China's service trade achieve high-quality development? Let’s see the expert interpretation.
In 2024, China established a negative list management system for cross-border service trade nationwide for the first time, and issued a negative list for cross-border service trade in the free trade pilot zone and the national version. Experts said that in the future, we must pay more attention to opening up and leading in the future.
Researcher of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission said: "The free trade pilot zones and comprehensive pilot projects for expanding the opening up of the service industry are accelerating the development of openness, and the rules and regulations management standards in the medical culture and other service fields are being fully integrated and solidly promoted, providing strong impetus for the opening up of the service industry."
Experts said that it is necessary to fully implement the negative list of cross-border service trade, timely "reduce the order and price" and orderly promote the gradient opening of cross-border service trade. Continue to actively connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules and promote compatibility of rules, regulations, management and standards in the field of service trade. At the same time, we will give full play to the advantages of manufacturing, promote the integrated development of service trade and goods trade; innovate and develop green technology trade, and continue to play the role of major exhibition platforms such as the Trade in Services. Build an international cooperation park for service trade and continuously optimize the open cooperation environment.
Li Jun, director of the International Service Trade Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce Research Institute, said: "Looking forward, my country's service trade development has both policy support and industrial support. The foundation and broad prospects of service trade development will be more prominent. The supporting role of stabilizing foreign trade development will be more prominent."
