Development Characteristics of Global Digital Trade,Current Development Situation in China and Countermeasures
The scope of the concept of digital trade has gradually expanded with the development of the digital economy,and is significantly different from traditional trade in terms of the scope and subject of the trade object,the delivery mode and operational links,the data-based platform and the role of data elements,and the digital de-liverable services trade indicator is a suitable indicator for measuring digital trade at this stage.The specificity of digital technology as a production factor determines that global digital trade presents high growth,strong tough-ness,differentiated development of niche industry sectors,absolute dominance of developed economies coexisting with high growth of developing economies,the United States and the United Kingdom leading the way in a compre-hensive way,and Ireland and emerging countries catching up in specific niche areas and other characteristics.Chi-na's digital trade is developing rapidly,but its comprehensive competitiveness is not strong,and it faces the prob-lems of international checks and balances in hardware and software infrastructure and institutional docking barri-ers.It is necessary to tap the potential of digital trade in niche areas in a targeted manner,enhance the hardware and software protection of digital trade with technological innovation,give good play to the comparative advantages in the domestic and international markets,and accelerate the systematic opening up to reduce the obstacles to the development of digital trade.
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