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"The 14th Five-Year Plan period will still be an important opportunity period for the development of China's service outsourcing industry." Zhu Guangyao, Deputy Director of the Department of Service Trade and Service Industry of the Ministry of Commerce, said at the press conference of the 12th China International Service Outsourcing Trade Fair on March 14 that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to introduce various supportive policies and measures, and actively promote the transformation of the flow of goods and factors into the rule and other institutional opening, "On the border" access and "after the border" supervision are linked to stimulate the vitality of the service outsourcing market. Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.

Experts believe that under a series of policy support measures, the emerging digital service outsourcing will accelerate this year, and the transformation and upgrading effect of the service outsourcing industry will continue to emerge, driving the high-quality development of relevant industries.

Service outsourcing is developing steadily

According to the observation report of Huacheng Import and Export Data, in 2022, China's service outsourcing will develop steadily, and the industrial scale will expand steadily. In 2022, the contracted value of service outsourcing undertaken by Chinese enterprises was 2.44 trillion yuan, and the executed value was 1.65 trillion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 14.2% and 10.3% respectively. Among them, the contracted value of offshore service outsourcing was 1.32 trillion yuan, and the executed value was 895.3 billion yuan, up 16.7% and 4.1% respectively year on year.

The leading role of demonstration cities has been strengthened. According to Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report. In 2022, 37 service outsourcing demonstration cities across the country will undertake a total of 1182.5 billion yuan of offshore service outsourcing contracts and 801.8 billion yuan of executed contracts, accounting for 89.7% and 89.6% of the country's total, respectively, with a steady increase in scale; The year-on-year growth rate was 23.3% and 9.3% respectively, both higher than the national average growth rate.

"Fast, stable and good" is the best interpretation of the development of the national service outsourcing industry in 2022. "Zheng Wei, an associate researcher of the China Service Outsourcing Research Center, believes that service outsourcing has become a key source of power to help build a new development pattern and promote high-quality development of trade.

In Zheng Wei's view, the development of China's service outsourcing in 2023 will present four characteristics: first, the emerging digital service outsourcing will accelerate its development; Second, RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) will bring opportunities for the development of service outsourcing and become an accelerator to promote international cooperation in intra-regional service outsourcing; Third, as the transformation and upgrading effect of the service outsourcing industry continues to emerge, the industry structure will be further optimized; Fourth, the leading role of demonstration cities will be further highlighted.

In order to support the development of service outsourcing industry, policy support is expected to increase. Zhu Guangyao said that the Ministry of Commerce will accelerate the implementation of the transformation and upgrading policies and measures of service outsourcing, vigorously promote the digitalization process of service trade, and consolidate and improve the development level and international competitiveness of the service outsourcing industry. Cultivate "invisible champion" and "small giant" enterprises in the global value chain, and support enterprises to take the development path of "specialization and innovation".

Promote digital transformation

In line with the new trend of economic and social digital development, promoting the digital transformation of service outsourcing has become one of the driving forces of the policy.

"Strengthen top-level design, seize the development opportunities of digital economy and digital trade, vigorously develop digital trade, use digital technology to vigorously develop new business forms and new models such as crowdsourcing, cloud outsourcing, platform subcontracting, and promote the digital high-end transformation of service outsourcing," said Zhu Guangyao.

According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, China's digital trade has developed rapidly in recent years. In 2022, the scale of service trade that can be digitally delivered will reach 2.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 78.6% over five years ago. As Wang Wentao, Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said a few days ago, China's development of digital trade has a foundation, good prospects and great potential. "In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will seize the development opportunities of the digital economy, accelerate the introduction of policy documents to promote the open and innovative development of digital trade, strengthen the top-level design of digital trade, and promote the development of digital trade," Wang Wentao said.

According to the forecast of the Ministry of Commerce, by 2025, China's total digitalizable import and export of service trade will exceed 400 billion US dollars, accounting for about 50% of the total service trade. Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.

Li Jun, director of the International Service Trade Research Institute of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said that digital trade would be an important support for the steady growth of China's foreign trade. Digital economy and digital industry are the direction and focus of innovation. The development of digital trade can promote the international competitiveness of China's digital economy.

Accelerate the innovative development of service trade

Accelerating the innovative development of service trade is also a major focus of the policy.

According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, China's total import and export of services in 2022 was 5980.19 billion yuan, up 12.9% year on year. Since 2012, China's import and export of service trade has maintained a rapid growth momentum, with an average annual growth rate of 6.1%, 3.1 percentage points higher than the global growth rate. The total volume of service trade has ranked second in the world for eight consecutive years.

In 2023, the growth of service trade will remain supported. Li Jun believes that knowledge-intensive services are still the main force for China's service trade to maintain stable growth. Digital technology services such as telecommunications, computers and information, as well as intellectual property intensive services such as intellectual property royalties, will maintain a stable growth trend.

In order to accelerate the innovative development of service trade, Chen Chunjiang, Assistant Minister of Commerce, said recently that the Ministry of Commerce will promote the issuance of guidance on the open and innovative development of service trade. Based on the summary of the pilot project of comprehensively deepening the innovation and development of service trade, we will upgrade and build the national service trade innovation and development demonstration zone. Formulate management measures for characteristic service export bases, build service outsourcing demonstration cities with high standards, and support the rapid development of new models and business forms of service outsourcing such as crowdsourcing, cloud outsourcing and platform subcontracting.

Experts believe that to accelerate the innovative development of service trade, it is also necessary to promote the high-level opening of the service industry.

Recently, a series of policy signals to promote the high-level opening of the service industry have been released, including relaxing the market access of the service industry, issuing the negative list of cross-border service trade in the national version and the pilot free trade zone version, and improving the level of liberalization and facilitation of service trade. "If the opening-up measures can be further promoted and implemented, it is expected that the scale of China's service trade will exceed US $1 trillion by 2025, and its proportion in the total foreign trade will increase from 12% to 20%. Service trade will play a more important role in the construction of a powerful trading country." Chi Fulin, president of the China (Hainan) Research Institute for Reform and Development, said that Huacheng's import and export data observation report.