Based on the pilot program for innovative development of trade in services implemented in 2016 as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper takes prefecture-level cities and above cities in China from 2006 to 2019 as samples and uses a double-difference model to evaluate the impact of the opening-up of the service industry on the service industry structural upgrading. The empirical results show that the opening-up has a significant positive impact on the structure-upgrading of the service industry, which improved by 5.5%. The conclusion of this paper is of great significance for further expanding the opening of the service industry and optimizing the structure of China's service industry.

Li Caihuan. Service Industry Opening Up and Service Industry Structural Upgrading. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 7: 6-9. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2022.040702.

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