On the Factors Influencing the Competitiveness of Chinese Service Trade after Entering WTO - An Analysis Based on Grey Incidence

摘要

Service trade is an important force influencing economic development. Using international market share of service export, service trade competitive index and revealed comparative advantage of service trade as the indexes to measure the competitiveness of Chinese service trade respectively, three grey incidence models are built up to conduct an empirical analysis on the main factors affecting the competitiveness of service trade after China entering WTO or during 2002 and 2008. The result indicates that urbanization level has the maximum impact on the competitiveness of service trade, followed in turn by foreign direct investment, GDP in service industry, human capital and commodity trade. Further discussion provides train of thought for the upgrade of the competitiveness of Chinese service trade.