On October 19th, 24 departments including the Ministry of Commerce issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Trade in Services", which proposed to actively participate in the formulation of international rules in key areas.
Deepen communication and exchanges with international organizations such as customs, railways, civil aviation, and the Postal Union, and increase integration with international rules in the fields of transportation, postal express delivery, etc. Participate in the formulation of international standards and rules in the financial field, and strengthen international exchanges around digital currency, distributed ledger technology financial applications, and personal financial information protection. Strengthen exploration and cooperation in promoting cross-border data flow, improving digital intellectual property protection and personal privacy protection, establishing a dispute resolution mechanism, strengthening network data security protection, and responding to digital trade barriers, etc., actively participate in digital governance, data security, digital currency, etc. Monetary rule and standard setting. Actively participate in the consultation and formulation of relevant multilateral rules on intellectual property rights, and improve the ability to protect intellectual property rights.
The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Trade in Services" related to "digital" was mentioned 83 times, clearly "accelerating the process of digitalization of trade in services", vigorously developing digital trade, promoting digital high-end service outsourcing, and promoting digitalization of traditional service trade Transform and establish a sound digital trade governance system. The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Trade in Services" looks forward to the long-term goal of 2035, and proposes six key tasks of deepening reform and opening up, accelerating the process of digitalization, optimizing industry structure, improving regional layout, strengthening market players, and deepening foreign cooperation.
The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Trade in Services" proposes to continue to optimize digital service trade and further promote the innovative development of digital service trade formats such as professional services, social media, and search engines. Steadily promote digital technology trade, and enhance the autonomy and innovation capabilities of key core technology trade formats such as cloud computing services and communication technology services. Actively explore data trade, establish basic systems and standards such as data resource property rights and transaction circulation, and gradually form a relatively mature data trade model. Vigorously develop smart logistics, online payment, online education, online exhibitions, telemedicine, digital finance and insurance, smart sports and other fields, actively support the digital transformation of tourism, transportation, construction and other industries, and support the issuance of blockchain electronic bills of lading .
More prominent reform, opening up, and innovation are the three major development drivers. Promote reform, opening up, and innovation in an overall manner, take the promotion of reform and opening up, and the integration of technological innovation and model innovation as the basic principles throughout the article, insist on solving the problems in the development of trade in services with in-depth reforms, and stimulate the vitality of trade in services through institutional opening-up , Open up new space for the development of service trade with all-round innovation, and enhance the development momentum of service trade.
The plan conforms to the trend of increasing digitization of service trade, and for the first time includes "digital trade" in the development plan of service trade, and clarifies the focus and path of my country's digital trade development in the coming period. The plan closely follows the trend of green development, implements the central government's major strategic decision on carbon neutrality at the peak of carbon emissions, adheres to green development as a basic principle, and proposes to play a role in promoting the green transformation of service trade.
Compared with the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Trade in Services" issued by 13 departments including the Ministry of Commerce in 2017, there is no mention of "digital" or "digital" and other related content. It can be foreseen that during the next "14th Five-Year Plan" period, digital development will occupy an extremely important position. Relevant policies should all be in positive response to the President’s important article "Several Major Issues in the National Medium and Long-term Economic and Social Development Strategy" published in "Seeking Truth", "We must take advantage of the momentum and accelerate the development of the digital economy, digital society, and digital government." construction, promote the optimization and upgrading of digitalization in various fields, actively participate in the formulation of international rules such as digital currency and digital tax, and shape new competitive advantages. At the same time, it must be noted that the real economy is the foundation, and various manufacturing industries cannot be lost. As a big country, food and real industries must be self-centered, and this must not be lost.”
