MOFCOM Vice Minister Yan Dong told a State Council Information Office briefing
on Aug. 28 that China will pursue innovation-driven policies to boost the
international competitiveness of productive services. Beijing will promote
exports of manufacturing-linked services — including R&D, design, testing,
maintenance and supply-chain logistics — to deepen integration between services
trade and high-end manufacturing. The ministry will also seek to expand
life-services exports, grow inbound consumption and upgrade cultural trade.
Authorities plan to accelerate construction of national service-trade innovation
demonstration zones, steadily and orderly widen market access with a
services-sector focus, refine the cross-border services negative list management
system and break down cross-border services trade barriers, while promoting
greater application of AI, cloud computing and other digital-intelligent
technologies to enable services trade.
