
“On the high level of openness to promote the high-quality development of trade in services opinions” has recently been publicly released. In the State Council policy routine briefing held on the 10th, Assistant Minister of Commerce Tang Wenhong said that at present, China's trade in services is in the innovation and enhancement of the development of an important period of opportunity. Opinions” on the new situation of high-quality development of trade in services to make a comprehensive and systematic deployment, is an important guiding document for the development of China's trade in services in the next period.

In recent years, global trade in services and cooperation in the service industry have been developing in depth, and the process of digitization, intelligence and greening has been accelerating, with trade in services becoming an important driving force of economic globalization. According to WTO statistics, from 2013 to 2023, global service exports will grow at an average annual rate of 4.9%, about twice the growth rate of goods exports, and the share of service trade in total trade in goods and services will increase to one quarter. China's trade in services as an important hand in expanding the high level of opening up to the outside world, cultivating new momentum in the development of foreign trade, and continue to promote the accelerated development of trade in services, last year the country's service imports and exports of 6.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 10% year-on-year, the scale of a record high.

Tang Wenhong said that the introduction and implementation of the Opinions will further improve the level of opening up of China's service sector and promote the cross-border facilitation of the flow of various types of innovative elements; further stimulate the kinetic energy of innovation in various fields and broaden the space for the development of trade in services; and further improve the promotion of policies and the promotion system and optimize the environment for the development of trade in services.