In the first 7 months, my country's service trade increased by 20.7%

Our newspaper, Beijing, September 4th. Zhang Yi learned from the Ministry of Commerce that from January to July, my country's service trade continued to grow steadily. The total amount of service imports and exports was 3392.21 billion yuan, an increase of 20.7%year -on -year; of which service exports were 1642.24 billion yuan, an increase of 22.8%; imports were 174.997 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%. The increase in service exports was greater than the import of 3.9 percentage points, driving the service trade deficit of 20.1%to 107.73 billion yuan. In July, my country's total service imports and exports were 499.9 billion yuan, an increase of 15.7%year -on -year.

According to the deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce and the spokesman Shu Jianting, in the first seven months, the trade -in service trade has grown steadily. From January to July, the import and export of knowledge -intensive services was 1418.07 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2%. Among them, the export of knowledge -intensive service exports was 795.47 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9%; the areas where exports grew rapidly were telecommunications computers and information services, and other commercial services, with an increase of 15.2%and 14%, respectively. Knowledge -intensive service imports were 622.6 billion yuan, an increase of 6.9%; the fields of rapid imports were insurance services, with a growth rate of 77.2%.

The import and export of travel services continued to recover. From January to July, the import and export of travel services in my country was 462.23 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5%, of which exports fell 21.5%, and imports increased by 10.8%. Excluding travel services, from January to July, my country's service imports and exports increased by 23.1%, of which exports increased by 24.3%and imports increased by 21.8%. Compared with the same period in 2019, the service import and export increased by 51.5%, of which exports increased by 66%, imports increased by 36.99.9 %.

"The international attraction of my country's service market has been increasing. In recent years, my country's annual service industry added value -added increase in the world. Wang Dongtang, the director of the trade and trade service industry, pointed out that with the continuous improvement of professionalism and marketization, the service trade will have become an important platform for the development of new business formats, new models, and new concepts of enterprises in various countries. Duo international leading enterprises participated in the exhibition, and the level of internationalization continued to improve.

Zhou Jinzhu, director of the International Trade Research Department of the China Trade Council Research Institute, believes that under the premise of relatively stable international situations, service trade will become a new growth point for my country's trade. Based on the promise of opening 93 service departments in the WTO, the scope of open services promised in the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) China has added a new business service, educational service, health -related services and social services, and social services. Entertainment culture and sports services, transportation services, and other services, including 22 service departments, including the six major categories. In recent years, my country's market access restrictions have gradually relaxed the market access of foreign financial institutions. In 2020, the negative list of foreign investment access access to the National Edition and the Free Trade Zone has canceled the foreign -funded stock ratio of securities companies, securities investment funds, futures companies and life insurance companies. limit. At the same time, with the continuous improvement of my country's opening level, foreign financial institutions have gradually expanded in the scope of business in China.

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