CHEN Sixu
(№.2,2012)
Abstract: In recent years, the Sino-Russian service trade assumes a good development trend with the Sino-Russian economic cooperation upgrading. The Sino-Russian cooperation in the traditional service industries such as tourism, transportation, labor service and engineering contract has a fast development, and the two countries also carry out a close cooperation in some new service fi elds, i.e. fi nance, insurance and communication, etc. Their service trade is still at the initial stage so that there exist a series of problems such as small size, unbalanced structure and trade defi cit of China’s service trade with Russia in successive years. Therefore, both China and Russia should give full play to the potential of service trade, strengthen their cooperation and programs in strategy aspect and drive their
bilateral service trade to develop considerably.
Key words: China and Russia; service trade; cooperation