Abstract:

Digital trade plays an important role in the reorganization of global factor resources and shaping of international competitive advantages. The statistical measurement of the digital trade scale plays a fundamental and pioneering role in judging the development trend of digital trade and analyzing the macro-analysis of digital trade. However, no authoritative and unified statistical measurement scheme has been formed globally, which cannot meet the needs of national digital trade development. Therefore, firstly, this paper summarizes the domestic and international research dynamics and statistical practice. Then, it combines the practical work experience and data summarization to accurately identify the key and difficult points of statistical measurement, such as the statistics of the digital actual delivery service trade and the multiple data sources. Finally, it discusses the path and feasible suggestions for the realization of the statistical measurement of China’s digital trade scale from the short-, medium- and long-term perspectives on the basis of the statistical principles.

Key words: digital trade scale, statistical measurement, path suggestions