Abstract: 【Objective/Meaning】The education service trade is emerging as an important field of international service trade.In this paper, we summarized the current situation of higher education service trade in Taiwan and its experience and shortcomings in the development process to provide reference for that of mainland China.【Methods/Procedures】Through data graph, the trade volume, export price, export market structure and export level of Taiwan education service trade were analyzed, and several problems, i.e., large disparity of export volume between Taiwan and developed countries, the unreasonable structure of export market, imperfect trade levels, were found existed in Taiwan higher education service trade.Then the higher education service trade of mainland China and Taiwan were comparatively analyzed.【Results/Conclusions】Compared with Taiwan, the education service trade of mainland China was found with advantages of larger export scale, more reasonable export market structure and having more internationally renowned universities, but with disadvantages of lower level of internationalization, insufficient investment and lower educational background of full-time teachers.Based on the above characteristics, the corresponding suggestions for the development of education service trade in mainland China were put forward.