Exploration on the Export Potential of China's Digital Service Trade to RCEP Countries
The article is based on digital service trade data from the OECD BaTIS database,and uses stochastic frontier gravity model and non efficien-cy model to study the digital service trade potential and influencing factors of China's exports to RCEP member countries from 2005 to 2019.The re-search finds that the economic scale between China and its trading partners,the size of China's population and its status as a"the Belt and Road"country are all conducive to China's export of digital services trade.The population size of trading partner countries is not conducive to China's digital service trade exports,and the impact of distance on service trade is not significant.The level of knowledge protection,internet development,tariff free-dom,fiscal freedom,financial freedom,and government expenditure of trading partners are all conducive to reducing non efficiency items in trade,while the improvement of commercial freedom will have a significant hindrance to the level of trade efficiency.From the perspective of actual trade vol-ume,China's digital export potential to developed countries in RCEP is generally greater than that of underdeveloped countries,but there is also signif-icant trade potential for exports to Thailand,Indonesia,and Malaysia.Therefore,China's current digital service trade needs to actively implement a market diversification strategy,pay attention to the infrastructure of exporting countries and the current implementation level of intellectual property laws,open up channels for data sharing and system co-recognition with trading partners,and continuously improve trade profits under the RCEP frame-work.
digital service traderandom gravity modeltrade exportsRCEP