A Study on Digital Economy to Drive High-quality Development of China’s Trade in Services

As a new economic form, China’s digital economy is reshaping the economic structure. The digital industry and industrial digitalization are developing in a coordinated manner, with remarkable achievements in infrastructure construction and obvious regional agglomeration characteristics. Trade in services shows a strong momentum, with expanding scale, optimized structure, and outstanding performance in knowledge-intensive services. This paper conducts research on how the digital economy empowers the high-quality development of China's trade in services, analyzing the development status, action paths, restrictive factors, and countermeasures of both. The digital economy drives the digitalization of service trade transaction methods, breaking the time and space constraints of traditional models. At the same time, it promotes the digitalization of transaction objects, transforming service forms into data-based carriers and expanding trade boundaries. However, in the process of the digital economy's empowerment, there are problems such as shortcomings in infrastructure and technical support, insufficient adaptation between trade structure and digital transformation, and restrictions from international rules. In response to this, we should promote new digital infrastructure, optimize the trade structure, and strengthen international cooperation to drive the high-quality development of trade in services.