Comparative study on China and Japan's transportation service trade international competitiveness

Along with the development of economic globalization, trade between the countries all over the world is increasingly close. As international trade bridge, transportation service trade plays a more and more important role in the service trade. In this paper, we use international market share, RCA index, TC index to do empirical analysis. Thereby we compared the two countries, China and Japan, transportation service trade's international competitiveness from different sides. And conclude that, there is a gap between transportation industry in China and Japan but gradually narrowing. At last we analyse the existing problems of the transportation services in China and put forward corresponding strategies to improve the international competitiveness of trade.