People's Daily Online, Beijing, April 7 (Reporter Sun Hongli) According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, the person in charge of the Department of Trade in Services of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the development of service trade from January to February 2026 and said that from January to February, my country's total service import and export volume was 1.14307 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year decrease of 3.9%. Among them, exports were 442.49 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7%; imports were 700.58 billion yuan, a decrease of 8.7%. The service trade deficit was 258.1 billion yuan, 86.52 billion yuan smaller than the same period last year. It mainly presents the following characteristics:
The proportion of imports and exports of knowledge-intensive services has increased. From January to February, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services was 486.27 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.2%, accounting for 42.5% of the total service import and export, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the same period last year. Among them, the export of knowledge-intensive services was 248.23 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4%; the import of knowledge-intensive services was 238.04 billion yuan, a decrease of 8.4%.
Travel, other business services and transportation rank among the top three in terms of scale. From January to February, travel import and export reached 362.59 billion yuan, a decrease of 11.8%, making it the largest field of service trade in my country; of which exports were 60.96 billion yuan, an increase of 22.5%, and imports were 301.63 billion yuan, a decrease of 16.5%. The import and export volumes of other commercial services and transportation were 272.32 billion yuan and 212.23 billion yuan respectively.
It is reported that according to the new version of the "International Trade in Services Statistical Monitoring System" jointly released by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in January 2026, new statistical methods will be adopted from January to February 2026 for the compilation of service import and export data, mainly involving seven fields including transportation services, other commercial services, financial services, construction services, telecommunications computers and information services, personal culture and entertainment services, and processing services.
