Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan Saturday called for greater
efforts to develop the country's service industry and increase the
industry's proportion in the nation's economic development.
Zeng, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist
Party of China Central Committee, told a service industry work
conference held Saturday in Hangzhou, capital of east China's
Zhejiang Province, "It's an urgent task to quicken the development
of the service industry."
"The development level of the service industry is an important
symbol of a country's modernization," he said.
China's service industry has witnessed steady growth since the
country adopted the reform and opening up policies. The fast growth
of the service industry will help promote the change of China's
growth pattern and build a resource-conserving and
environmental-friendly society, he said.
It will also be of great significant to improve the socialist
market-oriented economic system and facilitate the coordinated
development of the nation's economy, the vice-premier said.
He called for accelerated development of communications and
transportation, finance, information and other services.
Efforts should also be made to develop community service, trade
and services related to tourism, cultural and recreational
activities, sports and body-building. Services gearing to rural
areas should be further improved.
He urged the sector to introduce and spread the use new
technologies and develop China's own service name brands.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2006)
