On March 6, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao said at the economic theme press conference of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress that an important growth point for expanding foreign trade increment in the next step is to innovate and enhance service trade. The next step will be to promote opening up and build a platform, fully implement the negative list of cross-border service trade, and start the construction of demonstration zones for innovative development of service trad...
According to CCTV, Li Qiang chaired an executive meeting of the State Council to study service trade and service consumption.
September 6, 2024 January-July, our country's trade in services continued to grow rapidly, the total import and export of services 2301.8 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7%. Among them, exports 1.7325 trillion yuan, an increase of 12.4%; imports 2.49768 trillion yuan, an increase of 16.4%; service trade deficit 765.18 billion yuan.
On June 13, under the joint witness of Premier Li Qiang of the State Council and Prime Minister Lacson of New Zealand, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and Minister of Trade of New Zealand McClay signed an exchange of letters to launch the negative list negotiations on the trade in services of the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. New Zealand is the first developed country to conclude a bilateral free trade agreement with China. The China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement is the first compr...