1. The trade deficit continues to increase, and the overall competitiveness of service trade is weak.
Since 1995, China's service trade has been in a deficit state. 1995 is-6.092 billion dollars. From 2000 to the first half of 2005, they were-5.600 billion US dollars,-593/kloc-0.0 billion US dollars,-6.783 billion US dollars,-8.572 billion US dollars,-9.699 billion US dollars and-3.932 billion US dollars respectively. With the increase of the total trade in services, the increase of the trade deficit is generally stable, but it has not changed the unfavorable situation (the deficit has narrowed in the first half of 2005, but it is difficult to explain that the situation of China's trade in services has improved due to the short time).
2. The internal structure of service trade is unreasonable
China's service trade is not only relatively backward in development, but also irrational in structure.
In the total import and export structure of China's service trade, the top three are tourism, transportation and other commercial services. From 200 1 to 2004, the import and export of tourism and transportation accounted for more than 60% in service trade. Excluding other commercial services, the export proportion of insurance services, financial services, computer and information services, patent services and other services is relatively low. At present, China's service trade is mainly concentrated in labor-intensive or resource-intensive low value-added projects, while the development of technology-intensive and knowledge-intensive high value-added service industries is relatively slow.
The import and export structure of various service trade reflects the source of surplus and deficit of service trade, and also reflects the industrial structure of import and export of service trade in China. From 200 1 to 2004, China's service trade continued to be in deficit. The service trade surplus mainly comes from tourism and other commercial services, while the service trade deficit mainly focuses on transportation, insurance, patent and franchise services and consulting services. In recent years, the import of insurance, patents, franchise services and consulting services has increased substantially, and the proportion has increased year by year, which has become the main new source of trade deficit. The import and export of other service industries have not changed much. China's service trade exports are mainly concentrated in traditional labor-intensive services or resource-intensive services, while imports are mainly concentrated in knowledge and technology-intensive services (although the export of knowledge and technology-intensive services has also increased).