An Empirical Study on Comparative Advantage and Structure Change in Knowledge-Intensive Service Trade about China, Japan and South Korea ——Analysis Based on RCA Index and TC Index etc.
HONG Shi-qin1, HE Shu-zi2
1.School of Economics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; 2. Economic Department Hefei Institute, Hefei 230601, China
Abstract：
By the symmetry RCA index, a comparative study is made on China, Japan and South Korea’s comparative advantage and trade structure in knowledge-intensive services in term of the total imports and exports, trade structure and trade competitiveness. The findings indicate that China has large deficit in knowledge-intensive service trade, with an increasing tendency. In the knowledge-intensive trade in services domain, China’s comparative advantage was weak as a whole, there is still a large gap among China, Japan and Korea. In terms of the sub-item knowledge-intensive trade in services, China located in lower point of knowledge-intensive services chain, China's disadvantage industry is other two countries’ advantage industry, there are competition in China's export in communication trade and Korea export in communication trade.
HONG Shi-qin, HE Shu-zi.An Empirical Study on Comparative Advantage and Structure Change in Knowledge-Intensive Service Trade about China, Japan and South Korea ——Analysis Based on RCA Index and TC Index etc.[J] Economic Survey, 2012,V1(4): 46-50
2012 
