中国服务业FDI对货物出口影响的探究

Since the 1980s, the service market opening has been accelerated. Countries begin to relax their barriers over service market entrance, and there has risen a new round of global cross-border transfer of services. The main part of the foreign investment also gradually shifts from the manufacturing to modern service industry. This paper is based on China's provincial panel level data from 2001 to 2011 to estimate the influence of foreign direct investment in services on goods export include export scale, methods and technological structure. We found that FDI in services promotes the expansion of the overall size of goods export. For the two export methods, there is no significant difference: the impact of FDI on both the processing trade and general trade are significantly positive. But for the commodities with different technological added value, FDI in services contributes significantly to the export of high-cost productsand midium-tech prooducts. However, as for low-tech products exports, the impact of FDI in services is not so significant.