The industry structure of trade in services is continuously optimized.
China's industry structure of trade in services is constantly optimized. The proportion of knowledge-intensive trade in services continues to increase, and our advantages in traditional fields are further consolidated. From 2015 to 2020, the import and export structure of traditional fields, knowledge-intensive sectors to other fields was changed from 68.5:20.5:11 to 50.2:44.5:5.2. Among them, the export structure proportion of traditional fields to knowledge-intensive services was adjusted from 46.1:33.2 to 35.0: 55.3, while the import structure proportion of traditional fields to knowledge-intensive services was adjusted from 79.8:14.1 to 61.4:36.6.
Knowledge-intensive sectors have become the main driving force for the growth of trade in services. In 2020, the share of knowledge-intensive sectors in China's total volume of trade in services increased by 24.1 percentage points compared with that at the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the contribution rate of total import and export of knowledge-intensive sectors to total volume of trade in services has reached 1445.2%. Among them, the share of exports increased by 22.1 percentage points, contributing 131.5% to total service exports, while the share of imports 22.6 percentage points.
I. Achievements of the 13th Five-Year Plan
The structure of trade in services industry is continuously optimized.
The advantages of traditional trade continue to be maintained. In 2020, China's total volume of trade in transport services reached USD 151.28 billion, up 22.1% from the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period, accounting for 22.8% of China's total volume of trade in services, ranking second only to the US in the global transport services. The total volume of trade in construction services reached USD 33.28 billion, an increase of 24.0% over that at the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan Period. The share of trade in construction services in China's total volume of trade in services rose from 4.1% to 5.0%, globally ranking first.
