Laws of the People's Republic of China

Several Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of the Service Industry

Guo Fa [2007] No.7

The People's Governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the State Council, and all ministries, commissions and directly subordinate organs under the State Council,

In accordance with the general direction and guidelines for the development of the service industry as determined in the design of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, several opinions on accelerating the development of the service industry are set forth as follows:

1.

Fully realizing the major significance of accelerating the development of the service industry

The service industry is an important part of the national economy, and an important indicator for measuring the economic development level of a modern society. China is now in the stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way and in the progress accelerated industrialization, urbanization, market mechanisms and internationalization, and many conditions supporting the sound and rapid economic development have been preliminarily in place. Accelerating the development of the service industry, enhancing the proportion of the service industry in the structure of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, as well as making the service industry a leading industry in the national economy are the only way to pushing the adjustment of economic structure and speeding up the transition of the economic growth mode, are the imperative needs for effectively easing the bottleneck restrictions as a result of shortage of resources and advancing the use efficiency of resources, and are the effective ways for and realization of upswing in the overall national strength as a whole in the new situations of opening up to the outside world. Accelerating the development of the service industry, forming a relatively complete system of the service industry, offering profuse products satisfying the needs of people in materials, culture and living, and making it a major industry that absorbs both urban and rural new workers are the intrinsic requirements for the settlement of the livelihood of the people, promotion of the social harmony and building a well-off society in an all-round way. Therefore, we must attach great importance to the major long-term strategic task of accelerating the development of the service industry at the height of implementing the scientific development view and strategic ideology of building a harmonious socialist society into real effect.

Both the Central Party and the State Council have always attached importance to the development of the service industry, formulated a series of policy measures for encouraging and supporting it, and the development of the service industry have been advanced obviously. Especially since the 16th Conference of the Chinese Communist Party, we have continued to expand the scale of service industry, improved in both structure and quality, and deepen the reform and opening to the outside world in service fields, which has played a significant role in promoting the steady and rapid economic development, increasing work opportunities, etc. However, there are still some problems which cannot be neglected in the development of the service industry, such as the overemphasis on the development of industry, especially on heavy industry, and pay insufficient attention to the development of the service industry. In general, China's service industry is short in supply, unreasonable in structure, low in service level, weak in competitiveness, low in the proportion of contribution to the national economic development, not in match with the accelerated economic and social development as well as the adjustment and upgrade of the industrial structure, it does not meet the requirements for building a well-off society in an all-round way and building a harmonious socialist society, and does not conform to the new situations of economic globalization and opening further to the outside world. All localities and all departments shall further improve their awareness, make their minds consistent with central decision making and deployment, alter their development concepts, broaden their vision about development, and endeavor to solve the existing problems, in order to speed up the escalation of the service industry to a new level, to boost the economy and society to run on the tracks of scientific development, and promote the sound and rapid development of the national economy.

2.

General requirements and major targets for accelerating the development of the service industry

During the present and next few years, the requirements for the development of the service industry are to: take Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents as our guide, fully implement the scientific outlook on development and the important strategic ideology of building a harmonious socialist society, regard the development of the service industry as a major way for accelerating the adjustment of industrial structure, transiting the mode of economic growth, enhancing the overall strength of the national economy and realizing the full, consistent and sustainable development of the national economy, insist on the ideas of people first, reciprocity and fairness, further improve the public service system and mechanisms that shall cover both urban and rural fields with reasonable function, and continuously enhance the supply ability and level of public services; stick to the direction of market mechanism, industrialization and socialization, promote the service industry to broaden its fields, intensify its functions and optimize its structure; keep to the overall allocation and coordination as well as categorized guidance, bring relative advantages into play, carry out reasonable planning, and shape up a development pattern for a service industry that is vigorous, with distinct features and mutually supplemental in advantages; adhere to the innovative development, enlarge the opening wider the outside world, absorb the advanced experiences, technologies and modes of management of the developed countries, intensify the international competitiveness of the service industry, and realize the sound and rapid development of the service industry.

According to the design of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, the major targets in developing the service industry during the period of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan are: by the year of 2010, the ratio of the added value of the service industry to the GDP shall have grown by 3 per cent as opposed to that of 2005, the ratio of workers engaging in the service industry to those in the whole society shall have grown by 4 per cent, and the total amount of trade in services shall have reached 400 billion U.S. dollars; an industrial structure giving priority to the service economy shall have been formed in qualified large or medium-sized cities, and their growth rates of added value of the service industry shall have exceeded the growth rates of the GDP and the secondary industry. By the year of 2020, the transition to an economic structure giving priority to the service economy shall have been accomplished preliminarily, with the ratio of the added value of the service industry to the GDP over 50%, the structure of the service industry notably optimized, the employment capacity obviously augmented, the degree of equalization in the public services notably advanced and the market competitiveness notably enhanced, and the overall level of development shall have basically satisfied the requirements for the full construction of a well-off society.

3.

Greatly optimizing the structure of development of the service industry

In order to adapt to the new situations of new-type industrialization and the upgraded consumption structure of residents, emphasis shall be placed on the development of the modern service industry, the traditional service industry shall be regulated and upgraded, and the role of the service industry in attracting employment shall be fully displayed. The structure of this industry shall be optimized, with the technical structure upgraded, the organizational structure reformed and the level of development of the service industry fully improved.

The service fields facing production shall be strongly developed to facilitate the organic integration and interactive development of the modern manufacturing industry and the service industry. The work division by specialty shall be detailed and deepened, the productive and manufacturing enterprises shall be encouraged to reform their present business flow, outsourcing shall be boosted, core competitiveness shall be fortified, and the extension from the production and processing lines to self-development, brand name marketing and other service lines shall be accelerated, with the consumption of resources reduced and the added value of products raised. Priority shall be given to the transportation industry, the levels of special and socialized services of logistics shall be advanced, and the third-party logistics shall be vigorously developed; the information service field shall be actively developed, the development of the software field shall be accelerated, and the industrialization derived by informationization shall be persisted in so as to perfect information infrastructures, actively promote the integration of "Three Networks", develop value-added and Internet businesses, and boost the development of e-commerce and e-administration; the financial service field shall be developed in an orderly way, the financial market system shall be improved, and the innovation of products, services and management shall be accelerated; the science and technology service field shall be strongly developed, the role of science and technology in underpinning and leading the development of the service industry shall be brought into full play, and the development of such specialized service fields as research and development in science and technology, technology generalization, industrial designing and energy saving shall be encouraged; commercial services such as legal consultation, accounting and auditing, engineering consultation, certification and accreditation, credit assessment, advertising and convention & exhibition shall be regulated for development; the trade and circulation industry shall be boosted and reformed, and modern business forms and new types of trade such as chain and franchised operations shall be popularized. By the development of the service industry, the best use of both materials and human resources is made, with goods circulated smoothly, cost for social transaction reduced, the resource allocating efficiency raised and the development towards a new-type industrialization accelerated.

The service fields facing the livelihood of the people shall be strongly developed, and new-type service fields shall be actively expanded and constantly fostered to produce new growth points in the service industry. Based on the requirements of urbanization and aging population, such service fields as municipal public utility, real estate and property services, community services, household services and socialized retirement services shall be strongly developed. Based on the requirements of building a harmonious society, such service fields as educational, medical and health, press, postal, telecommunication, radio, film and television services and causes shall be strongly developed. Importance shall be attached to the rural and underdeveloped regions, with the building of public service systems intensified, the structure of urban and rural regional service industries optimized and the equalization of public services realized gradually. Based on the targets for construction of a well-off society and the requirements for transiting and upgrading the consumption structure, such service fields as tourist, cultural, sports, recreational and entertainment services shall be strongly developed, and the consumption structure of services shall be optimized, in order to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people. The service industry shall be the major channel for increasing employment in China, the service fields with large employment capacity shall be especially developed, other service fields shall be encouraged to contain more employment, and the huge potential of the service industry in creating employment opportunities shall be fully dug up.

Participants in the service market shall be strongly fostered, and the organizational structure of the service industry shall be optimized. The enterprises in service business shall be encouraged to intensify their own creativity, improve their general quality and competitiveness through technological progress, and continue carrying out managerial, service and product creation and innovation. We shall, based on enterprises with great competitiveness, promote large-scale networked operations with well-known brands by means of acquisition and merger, consortium, restructuring and IPO, etc., in order to form a batch of large-scale service enterprises or enterprise groups that hold their own intellectual properties and well-known brand and have great competitiveness. The non-public economy shall be encouraged and guided to develop the service industry, and active support shall be given to the development of medium- and small-sized service enterprises to fully take the advantage of their advantages in helping people start their own businesses and in the creation of employment opportunities.

4.

Scientifically adjusting the development pattern of the service industry

We shall, under the precondition of realizing the provision of universal services and meeting the basic needs, and in light of the comparative advantages and reality of regional economic development, make scientific and reasonable planning in order to form a development pattern of the service industry that is full of strength, adapted to the market with distinctive features and is mutually supplemental in advantages.

Cities shall make full use of their advantages in the relatively centralized talents, logistics, information and capital, advance the structure adjustment, and improve the quality and level of the service industry. Municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities specifically designated in the state plan, capital cities and other qualified large- and medium-sized cities need to advance the formation of an industrial structure giving priority to the service economy. Within the developed regions, especially the Pearl River delta, Yangtze River delta and Bohai Sea ring, upon their advantages of faster progression of industrialization and higher resident's incomes and consumption levels, the modern service industry shall be strongly developed with the upgrade of the service industry promoted, quality of the service industry improved and the economic growth boosted mainly by the growth of the service industry. Within the middle and western China, the notion that the service industry can be developed only after the industrial development is changed, the service fields with comparative advantages and traditional service fields shall be actively developed, and the service fields diverted from the eastern China may be picked up, in order to escalate the development of the service industry to a new level as soon as possible and continue raising the rate of contribution of the service industry to the economy growth.

All localities shall, in light of the state planning, development trend of urbanization and the industrial distribution, provide guidance to such service fields as traffic, information, research and development, design and commercial services, etc. that have a stronger radiating or aggregative effect, and foster and form state or regional service centers that are prominent in the principal functions relying on a cluster of cities or the central city. The traffic infrastructures such as railways, highways, civil aviation and water carriage shall be further improved with the priority given to the development of city public transportation, in order to form a fast, convenient, smooth, highly efficient and safe integrated transportation system. And no time shall be wasted in building international shipping centers and major ports in Shanghai, Tianjin and Dalian. The construction of transportation pivots and connecting transportation facilities shall be advanced, and regional logistical centers shall be formed by intensifying the allocation and integration of logistical infrastructures in the economically developed regions and transportation pivot cities. State or regional financial centers shall be set up by selecting the extra-large cities and large cities that have stronger radiating functions and extensive service spectrums. Relying on the regions that have large-scale industrial convergence, high-level equipments and strong ability in scientific research, the fostering and completion of public service platforms shall be accelerated, which are mutually supplemental in functions and have a strong sustainability in such fields as research and development, design, financial management and information inquiry. And a batch of industrial design and research and development service centers shall be built by making full use of the functions of the state software industry bases, in order to form ever new growth poles with strong driving powers and extensive radiating spectrums.

We shall, by adhering to making good use of existing service resources, break up the administrative separation and regional blockage, bring into full play the functions of the market mechanisms, encourage the cooperation in various manners between sections, fields and regions, promote the restructuring of resources in the service industry, make full use of the combination advantages and deepen work division and cooperation, in order to realize the optimal allocation of resources in a greater extent, in a broader field and at a higher level. And we shall avoid impractical comparison, blind investment and repetitive construction.

5.

Actively developing the service industry in rural areas

By carrying out the basic strategy of coordinating the development of urban and rural areas, the service industry for the needs of rural areas shall be strongly developed to continuously prosper the rural economy, increase the income of farmers, improve the living standard of farmers, and tangibly serve the aims of developing modern agriculture and boosting the construction of new socialist countryside.

Centering on the services rendered before, during and after the agricultural production, the structuring and improvement shall be accelerated of the rural socialized service system giving priority to the production and sales, science and technology, information and financial services. And the support for agricultural industrialization shall be intensified, and such production services as seed supply and uniform prevention and control of major plant diseases and insect pests shall be actively developed. The circulation system of agricultural products and by-products shall be improved, various circulation intermediaries shall be fostered, a batch of large-scale agriculture-related commercial enterprise groups shall be fostered, and the issue of difficulty in selling agricultural products and by-products shall be tangibly solved. The market project of "ten thousand villages and thousand counties" shall be accelerated. Building of the agricultural science and technology system shall be intensified, the agricultural technical support system such as spread of agricultural technologies, testing and certification of agricultural products, animal epidemic prevention and plant protection, etc. shall be improved, as well as the agricultural science and technology innovation promoted, implementation of the project of household access to the science and technology accelerated. The building of the agricultural information service system shall be accelerated, and an information network linking both domestic and foreign markets and covering both production and consumption shall be formed step by step. Meanwhile, building of the agricultural financial system shall be intensified, the roles of rural commercial, cooperative, policy and other financial institutions shall be brought into full play, a variety of rural insurances shall be developed, and the financial services for the "three rural issues"(that is the countryside, farmer and agriculture) shall be boosted. In addition, the building of the agricultural machinery socialized service system shall be accelerated, and the market mechanism, specialization and industrialization of the agricultural machinery services shall be boosted. And the various specialized farmer cooperative organizations shall be greatly encouraged to build, and shall be supported in conducting operations such as marketing, information services, technical training, processing and storage of agricultural products, and supply of agricultural production materials.

The elementary conditions in rural areas shall be improved, and the development of rural living services be accelerated, in order to enhance the living quality of farmers. The infrastructure construction in such fields as water conservancy, transportation, fishery harbor, post, telecommunications, electric power, radio, film and television, medicine and health, birth control and education shall be boosted, and implementation of the project of rural drinking water safety shall be accelerated, the use of marsh gas strongly developed in countryside, the exploitation and use of renewable energy such as biomass energy, solar power and wind energy boosted, so that the farmers' production and living conditions can be improved. Meanwhile, distinctive industries such as horticulture, special breeding farms and countryside tourism shall be vigorously developed, and the laboring economy shall be encouraged, in order to increase the income of farmers. In addition, the community construction in countryside shall be actively promoted, development of rural culture, medicine and health, social security, birth control and so on shall be accelerated, farmer sport projects shall be implemented, the coverage of publications and broadcasting of radio, film and television in rural fields shall be enlarged, and the level of equalization in public services shall be raised, so that the material and spiritual life of farmers are enriched. The basic, occupational and continuing education in rural areas shall be intensified and the training of farmers and migrant workers be done well in order to improve the quality of farmers, and in combination with the urbanization process, the transferred employment of residual rural labor forces shall be actively advanced.

6.

Exerting to raise the level of opening up of the service industry

The opening up of the service industry shall be firmly impelled, and efforts shall be made to improve the quality and level of the use of foreign capital. Pursuant to various commitments on the liberalization of trade in services made by China upon its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), foreign investors are encouraged to invest in the service industry. And the relationship between the opening up of the service industry and the fostering and growing of domestic industries shall be properly managed, the laws and regulations on the service industry for attracting foreign capital shall be perfected, and a batch of internationally competitive service enterprises shall be fostered through the introduction of advanced foreign experience and improvement of the structure of enterprise governance. The basic systems and rules on the financial market shall be intensified, and the risk resistance capabilities of such industries as banking, securities and insurance shall be fortified in order to maintain the state financial safety.

The vigorously developing trades in service field shall be made as an important part of the effort to transform the growth mode of foreign trade and raise the level of opening up. And accepting international service outsourcing shall be made as the emphasis in expanding the trades in service, and international service outsourcing in fields such as information management, data processing, accounting, technology research and development and industrial design shall be actively accepted by making good use of China's rich human resources. Qualified coastal areas and cities shall study and make supporting policies to encourage the acceptance of service outsourcing in light of their respective advantages, speed up fostering a batch of internationally qualified service outsourcing enterprises and set up a batch of outsourcing industry bases. The service platforms supporting domestic enterprises to "go abroad" shall be set up to offer market research, legal consulting, information, finance, management and other services. We shall support the development of export-orientated service enterprises, develop and expand the international transportation, continually develop the trades in service such as tourism, contracting of international engineering projects and labor export with comparative advantages, actively participate in the international competition, and expand the cooperation and co-development on the basis of mutual benefits.

7.

Accelerating and impelling the reform of service fields

The various reforms in the service fields shall be further boosted. And the state-owned capital in the service industry shall, in light of the requirements for strategic adjustment of the national economic pattern, concentrate in the major public product and service fields. We shall deepen the reform in service fields such as telecommunications, railways and civil aviation, broaden the market access, introduce the mechanism of competition, boost the restructuring of state-owned assets, and achieve the diversity of investment participants. Meanwhile, we shall actively impel the reform of state-owned service enterprises, transform the state-owned service enterprises in competitive fields into shareholding enterprises, and set up the modern enterprise system to turn them into real participants in the market competition. The public service function and commonweal nature of such social causes as education, culture, radio and television broadcasting, social security, medicine and health and sport shall be made clear, and for those services that can be supplied on the market, the social forces shall be mobilized to increase the market supply. According to the principles of separation of administration and enterprises, separation of administration and institutions, separation of institutions and enterprises, and separation of for-profit institutions and non-profit institutions, the reform of institutions shall be accelerated, and the for-profit institutions shall be transformed into enterprises. In addition, a modern enterprise system shall be set up as soon as possible. The reform of logistic and related services in government agencies, enterprises and institutions shall be boosted continually, and the transformation from mainly internally serving oneself to mainly serving the general public shall be boosted as well.

A fair, equal and standard system for access to the service industry shall be set up. We shall encourage the social capital to flow into the service industry, strongly develop non-public service enterprises, in order to raise the ratio of non-public economy in the service industry. All service fields to which the access is not prohibited expressly by laws or regulations shall be opened up to the private capital; all fields opened up to foreign capital shall be opened up to domestic capital as well. The market separation and regional blockage shall be broken, and the construction of a market system featuring nationally uniform opening up and orderly competition shall be impelled. All service fields opened up to local enterprises in all localities shall be also opened up to non-local enterprises.

8.

Enhancing the input and policy support

The policy support shall be enhanced to boost the rapid development of the service industry. We shall, in light of the state industrial policies, improve and detail the catalog for guidance of the development of the service industry, further improve the policy system on promoting the development of the service industry in such aspects as finance, taxation, credit, land and price. Preferential policies in finance and taxation shall be adopted for the enterprises engaged in the construction of rural circulation infrastructures and logistics and the service enterprises certified as high and new technology enterprises engaged in the research and development of software, product technology, industrial design and information technology as well as the outsourcing of information technology and technical business processes. The reform of the service price system shall be further impelled, the price policies shall be improved, and basically the same prices of power, water, gas and heat supply shall be realized for both the industry and the service fields falling within the categories of fields encouraged by the state. The urban land use structure shall be adjusted, the proportion of land used for the service industry shall be determined reasonably, and as for the land supply, the service fields falling within the categories of fields encouraged by the state shall be considered favorably. Upon the actual conditions, the threshold for the ordinary service fields in such aspects as the registered capital and registration with the industrial and commercial administration shall be lowered, and the formalities for the registration with the industrial and commercial administration and examination and approval of business operation shall be go through in an uniform way by the headquarters of enterprises in the form of chain operation.

The channels for investment and financing shall be broadened, and the input in the service industry shall be enhanced. As for the arrangement of funds under the state fiscal budget, great importance shall be attached to the support for the development of major and weak fields of the service industry and the improvement of creation and innovation capabilities. The government investment structure shall be actively regulated, and the state will continue to arrange for the funds for the development and guidance of the service industry with an increasing scale, and the social capital shall be guided to increase the input in the service industry. The local governments shall also arrange for funds to support the development of the service industry. The financial institutions shall be guided and encouraged to offer credit support to the service enterprises that meet the requirements of the state industrial policies, and accelerate the development of financial products meeting the needs of service enterprises conditioned upon risk control. Qualified service enterprises shall be actively encouraged to enter the capital market at home and abroad for funding, and funds may be raised in a variety of ways such as the public offering of shares and issuance of enterprise bonds. The various business start-up venture capital institutions and credit guarantee institutions shall be encouraged to develop businesses with medium- and small-sized service enterprises that take on a bright business prospect, create large job opportunities or adopt new technologies or business forms.

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Continuously optimizing environment for the development of service industry

The standardization of the service industry shall be accelerated, the standard system of the service industry shall be set up and improved, and the coverage of service standards shall be enlarged. The service standards in such fields as logistics, finance, post, telecommunications, transportation, tourism, sport, trade and catering shall be made and amended by wasting no time. For the newly emerging service fields, the leading enterprises, local authorities and industrial associations shall be encouraged to first make the service standards. As for the service fields where standardization cannot be made currently, such systems as service commitments, service covenants and service operating rules shall be widely adopted.

The social atmosphere favoring the enlargement of service consumption shall be actively created. The order of the service market shall be regulated, an open, equal and standard industrial supervision system shall be set up, and the infringement acts of intellectual property rights shall be investigated and punished stoutly to protect creation and innovation and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. We shall intensify the management, overseeing and investigation of administrative fees, eliminate various unreasonable fee charges, and make the reasonable and lawful fee items and standards available to and supervised by the general public. In addition, we shall actually carry out the system of annual paid leave of employees, and encourage the employees to consume healthy and beneficial services in their vacation. And building of the credit system shall be accelerated, and the urban and rural residents shall be guided to use various flexible credit consumption manners in such aspects as information, tourism, education and culture. The leasing services shall be developed in a standardized way, and the consumption fields shall be broadened. The acceleration of reform of the residency management system of qualified cities and townships shall be encouraged, and conditions for the employment and settlement in cities and townships shall be gradually eased, in order to elevate effective demands.

The service field for human resources shall be developed, and the system of human resource allocation shall be enhanced, in order to provide guarantee for the acceleration of the development of service industry. We shall bring into full play the functions of institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutes, vocational schools and related social bodies, promote the international exchange and cooperation, and quickly train and fosterer a batch of skilled talents meeting the market needs, a batch of open-typed talents familiar with the international rules, a batch of scientific research talents capable of creation and innovation and a batch of talent service bodies that are internationally competitive. And the development of various employment service bodies shall be encouraged, the employment service network shall be upgraded, and the building of service systems in such aspects as the transfer of residual rural labor forces, employment of laid-off workers in the cities and employment of graduates shall be intensified, in order to provide high-quality labor forces for the acceleration of development of the service industry.

10.

Intensifying the organization and leadership on the development of the service industry

Accelerating the development of the service industry is an urgent, arduous, long-term and important task. Not only shall the discharge of fundamental functions of the market be adhered to in the allocation of resources, but also the government macro control and policy guidance shall be intensified. The State Council shall set up a Leading Panel for the national development of the service industry, responsible for the guidance and coordination of major issues arising during the development and reform of the service industry, the proposal of guidelines and policies on advancing the development of the service industry and the deployment of major tasks of the general nature. The Office of this Leading Panel shall be embedded in the National Development and Reform Commission, and shall be responsible for the daily work. The related departments and units of the State Council shall, in light of the unified deployment of this Leading Panel, strengthen coordination and assistance and actively undertake their work. The provincial people's governments shall also establish related leading mechanisms to intensify the leading of work on the service industry and propel the faster development of local service industries.

Intensifying public services is both an important part for accelerating the development of the service industry and a major guarantee for boosting the faster development of various service fields, as well as the intrinsic requirement for transforming government functions and building a harmonious society. The scopes of responsibilities and powers in respect of the provision of public services or development of social projects shall be further crystallized at the central or local level, the public service functions of the people's governments at various levels in respects such as the education, culture, medicine and health, population and birth control, and social security shall be intensified, with the fiscal input increased and the service supply enlarged, in order to escalate the coverage of public services and degree of public satisfaction with the public services and meanwhile provide strong and powerful support for the development of various service fields.

The scientific, uniform, complete and coordinated systems of statistics and investigation and of information management of the service industry shall be set up as soon as possible, the statistical and investigative methods and the system of indicators of the service industry shall be improved, the statistical contingent shall be enriched, and the input of funds shall be raised. We shall bring into full play the roles of all departments and industrial associations in order to promote the statistical information exchange in the service industry, set up and enhance the sharing mechanisms, improve the accuracy and timeliness of statistical data, and provide information for the state macro control and making of plans and policies. All localities shall gradually incorporate the major indicators of the service industry in the system of assessment of local economic and social development, and the categorized assessment shall be adopted in light of the specific requirements of different regions and categories of service fields, with the appropriate discharge of duties ensured, the tasks actually fulfilled and the actual achievements and results obtained.

All localities and all departments shall, according to the requirements of the present opinions, waste no time in formulating relevant implementing plans and specific policy measures on accelerating the development of the service industry, in light of their respective scopes of responsibilities and duties. And the National Development and Reform Commission shall, in collaboration with related departments and units, oversee and inspect the implementation of the present opinions, and submit a report to the State Council in time.

The State Council

March 19, 2007