According to data released by the Ministry of Commerce on July 3, my country's service trade steadily grew in the first five months of this year, with the total import and export of services increasing by 7.7% year-on-year.
In the first five months of this year, my country's total service import and export volume was RMB 3254.36 billion, of which exports were RMB 1403.37 billion, up 15.1%; imports were RMB 1850.99 billion, up 2.7%.
Knowledge-intensive service trade continues to grow. From January to May, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services was RMB 1249.27 billion, an increase of 5.0%. Among them, the import and export scale of other commercial services, telecommunications computers and information services is relatively large, with the amounts of 538.41 billion yuan and 440.06 billion yuan respectively, with growth rates of 3.2% and 10.7% respectively. Knowledge-intensive services exported 719.65 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6%.
Travel services exports have the fastest growth. From January to May, travel services continued to grow rapidly, with imports and exports reaching 920.05 billion yuan, an increase of 12.2%, making it the largest area of service trade. Among them, exports increased by 74.2%, and imports increased by 5.3%.
