China in the global services market

Keywords: trade in services, international trade, competitiveness, global value chains

Abstract

The major aim of the article is to reveal the modern trends in the changes of the role of services in Chinese economy. So as to attain the goal, the authors consider сharacteristics of the country’s tertiary sector and its involvement in both international trade in services and global value chains. The commercial services’ exports structure, revealed comparative advantage, trade restrictiveness index are analyzed in order to highlight common and peculiar features of the sphere of services in Russia and China. The comparison of the two countries’ key indices of trade in services indicates the existing trends of broadening collaboration between the economies. What is more, the authors review horizontal measures of Chinese trade policy and regulations in particular spheres and consider commitments within the free trade agreements in services and investment.

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Author Biographies

Анастасия Игоревна Матюхина

assistant at the Department of World Economy, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Ольга Владимировна Бирюкова

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of World Economy; Research Fellow in the Institute of Trade Policy, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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Published
2018-10-31
How to Cite
МатюхинаА. И., & БирюковаО. В. (2018). China in the global services market. Trade Policy, 2(6), 94-107. Retrieved from https://tpjournal.hse.ru/article/view/8203
Section
Empirical Studies of Trade F14