服务贸易是当代知识经济的重要载体与实现形式，是对世纪全球竞争的主要领域及制高点。率先在上海浦东创建中国特色的国际服务贸易先行区，勇于探索知识型服务贸易创新是我国对外经贸领域中跨世纪的战略举措之一。一、阔步迈向新世纪的战略举措在上海浦东创建国际服务贸易先行 Service trade is an important carrier and realization form of contemporary knowledge economy, which is the main area and the high ground for the global competition in the century. Taking the lead in establishing the Pilot Zone for International Trade in Services with Chinese characteristics in Pudong, Shanghai, and bravely exploring the innovation of knowledge-based service trade are one of the strategic initiatives in the cross-century in China’s foreign trade and economic cooperation. First, the strategic measures of striding toward the new century Pudong in Shanghai to create the first international trade in services