The Present Situation and Problems of Shandong's Trade Development

1. Statistical analysis of balance of payments. According to the balance of payments data of SAFE, the total service trade in Shandong Province in 2006 was US$ 5.84 billion, an increase of 23%. Among them, exports were US$ 2.99 billion, up by 34.5%, and imports were US$ 2.85 billion, up by 13.8%. The trade industry is mainly concentrated in the fields of transportation and commercial services, with exports of110.90 billion dollars and10.56 billion dollars respectively, up by 23.3% and 45.5%, accounting for 39% and 52%. From June to June this year, the total service trade of our province was $3 billion/kloc-0 billion, up 9%, accounting for 5% of the total trade of our province, of which exports were $654,380.49 billion, up 5.85%, and imports were $654,380.52 billion, up 654,380+03.2%.

2. Analysis of commercial existence in service trade. By the end of 2006, 7680 foreign-invested service projects were approved in the province, and the actually used foreign capital was 8.3 billion US dollars, accounting for 12.7% of the actually used foreign capital in the province. In 2006, the actual use of foreign direct investment in the tertiary industry was $654.38+0.3 billion, accounting for 65.438+0.3% of the whole province, 3 percentage points higher than that in 2005, with an increase of 65. 1%, which was 53.62 percentage points higher than the average level of the whole province. There are few overseas investment projects in the service industry, and no special statistics have been made. From June 5438 to May this year, the actual use of foreign direct investment in the service industry was US$ 480 million, accounting for 1 1% of the whole province, with a year-on-year increase of 1.2%.

3. Statistical analysis of the movement of natural persons. By the end of 2006, the total turnover of foreign contracted projects in our province was $6.3 billion, with 337,000 expatriates and labor income of $3.84 billion. In 2006, the turnover of foreign contracted projects in the province was 2.32 billion US dollars, up by 3.3 1%, and 4 1000 people were dispatched, realizing labor income of 695 million US dollars. From June to July this year, the turnover of foreign contracted projects was 786 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 14.46%. The number of expatriates was 65.438+0.9 million, and the labor income was 407 million US dollars, up 65.438+0.61%year-on-year. The turnover of foreign design consulting is 74 18000 USD.

(B) the existing problems and factors restricting development

Shandong is a big economic province, but compared with advanced provinces and cities, there is a big gap between service industry and service trade, and there are also some problems that restrict its development:

1. Trade in services obviously lags behind the development of trade in goods and accounts for a low proportion of the total trade. In recent years, the export of goods in our province has maintained a growth rate of more than 20%, and the export scale ranks fifth in the country. However, the scale of service trade is small, accounting for only 5% of the province's total trade, far below the world average of 19%.

2. Traditional service trade is dominant and its structure is unreasonable. The dominant sectors of service trade are mainly in traditional fields such as tourism and transportation, accounting for 90%, while the international competitiveness of modern service industries such as finance, insurance, computer services and technology trade is still very low and the development is slow.

3. The development of service industry lags behind, and the industrial base for developing service trade is not strong enough. In recent years, Shandong's service industry has made great progress, and the proportion of service industry in the three industries has gradually increased. However, there are still some problems, such as small total service industry, low proportion, low per capita service level, weak ability to absorb employment and unreasonable internal structure. In 2006, the added value of service industry in our province reached $723 billion, an increase of 14.6%, accounting for 32.7% of GDP, which was lower than that of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other provinces and cities. Structurally, traditional services such as wholesale and retail trade, catering, transportation and warehousing account for 46.2%, while modern services such as finance, logistics and information technology only account for 19.2%. Judging from the development trend of service industry investment, the proportion of service industry investment has been declining since the Tenth Five-Year Plan. In 2005, it was 52.3%, 52. 1%, 38.6%, 36.3% and 34%, and in 2006 it was 35.3%, still lower than the Tenth Five-Year Plan.

4. The reform of service industry is progressing slowly, and the degree of opening to the outside world is low. The market competition of service industry is insufficient and the degree of marketization is low. In addition to commerce, catering and real estate, Shandong's service industry is basically state-owned, with state-owned assets accounting for more than 70%. At present, the areas with low degree of opening to the outside world are basically concentrated in the service industry, and the internationalization level of the service industry is difficult to improve. In recent years, our province's foreign trade and economic cooperation has developed rapidly, and the scale of utilizing foreign capital has expanded rapidly. However, the opening-up development of service industry is relatively backward, and the utilization of foreign capital in service industry is still in the primary stage. The overall scale is not large, the field is not wide, and the project level is not high, mainly concentrated in traditional service industries such as real estate, catering and entertainment. The service-oriented tertiary industry only accounts for 13.3% of the province's foreign capital utilization, which is the weak link in the utilization of foreign capital. It fully reflects the lack of awareness, ability and supporting facilities to undertake the development of international service outsourcing. The relatively backward utilization of foreign capital in service industry has become a restrictive factor for the prosperity and development of service industry, which is incompatible with the rapid development of foreign capital utilization in our province in recent years.

Third, the countermeasures to accelerate the development of Shandong's service trade

Strategically unify the understanding of the importance of accelerating the development of service trade, make full use of relevant policies to expand the field of service trade, strengthen the investigation and analysis of service trade, study and promote policies and measures, increase the promotion of service trade enterprises, accelerate the pace of using foreign capital in service trade, build service trade brands, build service trade export bases, actively promote service enterprises to go abroad, expand service trade exports, and promote service trade to take the lead in breakthroughs in key areas.

(1) Clarify the development ideas and plans of service trade and improve the management system. Improve the development level of trade in services and goods, study and formulate development plans, and improve the policy promotion system. Increase the opening up of the service industry, focus on developing modern service trade, vigorously transform and upgrade the traditional service industry, and focus on developing financial insurance, modern logistics, information services, cultural tourism, real estate and commercial services, so as to lay an industrial foundation for expanding service trade exports. Do a good job in the planning and construction of the service trade demonstration zone and construct the regional characteristic layout of service trade development. Improve the coordinated and smooth service trade management system, and establish a departmental contact mechanism, a key export enterprise contact system and a service trade information statistical release system.

(2) Increase the opening-up in the field of service trade and improve the international competitiveness in the field of service trade. From the perspective of provinces and cities with rapid development of service industry, accelerating the opening up of service industry is an important way and breakthrough to promote the rapid development of service trade. Accelerate the opening of new service industries such as finance, insurance, logistics and commerce. Seize the use of foreign capital as the leading service industry opening to the outside world, highlight the new service industry focusing on service manufacturing, outsourcing services focusing on business processes and information technology services, public utility services focusing on improving urban functions and tourism and cultural services focusing on enriching people's lives, and regard large service enterprise groups and service outsourcing bases as important carriers for attracting investment. Carry out specialized investment and service outsourcing investment, form a competitive industrial system, and promote the overall level of service industry and the improvement of international competitiveness.

(3) Expand the scale of service trade through multiple channels and forms. First, cultivate service industry associations with enterprises as the main body, integrate enterprise strength and establish a unified image. The second is to vigorously develop service outsourcing. Actively promote the construction of service outsourcing bases and demonstration parks, and encourage multinational companies to set up regional headquarters and R&D centers in our province. Make full use of the opportunities of international service outsourcing such as software outsourcing, consulting services, basic research and development, value-added telecommunications and modern logistics to transfer to developing countries, and encourage and support service enterprises, research institutes and software enterprises in our province to take the initiative to undertake more service outsourcing business. The third is to encourage and support powerful enterprises to go out and operate service projects with traditional advantages. Fourth, strengthen regional cooperation in service trade. Give full play to the advantages of our province facing Japan and South Korea, strengthen regional cooperation, and develop the service industry based on service manufacturing while undertaking the transfer of manufacturing in Japan and South Korea.

(four) the implementation of service trade brand strategy and talent strategy, accelerate the cultivation of leading enterprises in service trade and service outsourcing talents. Develop superior brands and build a number of service-oriented enterprises and enterprise groups with outstanding main business, core competitiveness and leading role. Establish a service outsourcing development base based on Jinan and Qingdao. Relying on development zones, software parks, backbone enterprise groups and other carriers, we will establish service trade demonstration zones and software export innovation bases, so that the demonstration zones and bases will become brands for the development of service trade. Attach great importance to the cultivation and introduction of outsourcing talents as a basic, long-term and strategic measure. Give full play to the guiding role of the government, guide universities and service outsourcing enterprises to establish a school-enterprise cooperation mechanism, and cultivate basic talents for service outsourcing. Attract domestic and foreign outsourcing enterprises and training institutions to set up training bases in our province to form a high, middle and primary education and training system. In particular, pay attention to the introduction of high-end talents with certain foreign experience, and solve the bottleneck of high-end talents that restrict the outsourcing export of our province.

(5) Formulate policies for the development of trade in services and improve the service trade policy promotion system. Strengthen the service trade policy promotion means, and gradually establish various forms of policy promotion systems including finance, taxation, trade promotion and personnel training.