At the critical period of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country, the 2025 government work report outlines a new blueprint for the development of the service industry with bold strokes. The report frequently mentions statements related to the service industry, so as to form a systematic policy framework, including clear directions such as modern service industry and service-oriented manufacturing, as well as derivative concepts such as service trade, service reform, and service supply.
The report clearly proposes in the Strategic Basis for Expanding Domestic Demand section that domestic demand should become the driving force and stable anchor for economic growth, and the service industry should be regarded as the core carrier for solving supply-demand mismatches and activating endogenous driving forces. The report takes promoting the expansion of opening-up of the comprehensive pilot demonstration in service industry as a breakthrough, and clearly puts forward promoting the orderly opening of the Internet, culture and other fields, as well as expanding the opening pilot of telecommunications, medical care, education and other fields. The report regards innovation driven as the core path for the transformation and upgrading of the service industry, promoting its transition towards digitization and intelligence. The adjustment of the service industry policy system reflects a deep transformation in the logic of China's economic development, which is forming a virtuous cycle of high-quality supply leading demand through expanding service consumption and deepening open innovation.
