Abstract:The US keeps a distinct advantage in knowledge and technology-intensive service industries,while China has a comparative advantage in labor and resource-intensive service industries,which can be concluded from the following four aspects: total volume of foreign service trade,service trade structure,trade competitive index(TCI)and revealed comparative advantage(RCA).Compared with the US,China currently still has a long way to go in the matter of the whole competitive ability.Thus,it is at the top of the agenda to further analyze the factors which influence the two countries’ service trade competitive ability and put forward some measures and suggestions to improve China’s whole competitive ability.