Today, trade and services are the most dynamic branches of the Krai economy. New enterprises comprising various forms of ownership are being set up. The number of private and mixed companies specialize in the sales of products produced by the industrial and agricultural enterprises, as well as by the leading companies from Japan, the Republic of Korea and the USA, and it continues to expand with support from other foreign countries.
There are approximately 3.6 thousand enterprises in the Krai which provide trade services for its population.
The availability of products is supplied through a retail network of trade and public service enterprises, provided with the facilities capable of supplying the entire Krai population with the full range of consumer goods.
Having undergone fundamental changes, the service sector has been transformed into an extensive network of independent small and medium enterprises of various forms of ownership with the dominating non-state-owned enterprises.
More than 5 thousand enterprises and organizations, with 3.5 thousand private entrepreneurs, provide a large range of services for the population of the Krai, including consumer services, housing facilities and public utilities, public transportation, communication, preschool establishments, education, public health services, cultural museums, tourism, sports facilities, legal services, savings banks and other public services.
The services sphere network includes 800 specialized enterprises (including dressmaking and tailoring establishments, workshops, barber shops, photographer's studios, employment centers, baths and laundries), about 800 kindergartens, over 400 clubs, hundreds of recreational summer camps for children, over 1000 health care establishments and more than 1600 sports facilities.
Specialized, comprehensive preschool, high school and college institutions have been established and now operate within the Krai.
More than 50 hotels are serving the tourists and guests of the Krai. The finest hotels, such as "Sapporo," "Intourist," "Lyudmila," "Amethyst-Service," "Tourist," "Parus" and "Centralnaya" are located in the center of Khabarovsk.
Specialized technological trade centers offer the population maintenance services on household equipment, including foreign items. Tourism, hotel businesses and legal services are developing rapidly. Today, the trade and services sphere is characterized by an active development of cooperation with foreign companies; joint ventures are being set up, joint shops selling foreign made consumer goods are being opened and representative offices of different trading companies are being established.