This book explores the move from manufacturing towards service industry jobs in China's economic development during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. The service industry now makes up the highest proportion of the GDP and employs the largest number of people in China. In the next Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to actively push forward the strategic transformation by placing emphasis on the service industry to press ahead with system and mechanism reforms and policy innovations and cultivate diverse, sustainable and continuous forces for driving its growth. Efforts are made to upgrade the service industry to better achieve economic and social development in an innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared way. This book will be of interest to scholars researching China's future.

Examines the increasing importance of the service industry in China Explores how China is seeking to make sustainable economic models driven by domestic consumption Brings together a broad range of research, which has been used directly by Chinese policymakers in crafting 5 year plans

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Changyun Jiang is Deputy Director, research fellow and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China.  

Qunlian Hong is associate research fellow at the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China.

Ling Qiu is associate research fellow at the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China. 

Inhalt

1. Development of China's Service Industry: Review and Prospect.- 2. Development of Service Industry: Problems and Concerns.- 3. "The 13th Five-Year Plan" : Choices for the Future.- 4. Service Agglomeration: Characteristics, Mechanism and International Experience.- 5. Construction of Service Agglomeration Zone in China.- 6. Opening up the Service Sector.- 7. The Development and Policy Choice Of China's Service Trade.- 8. Service Industry Safety.- 9. Producer Services: The Engine of Industrial Transformation and Upgrading.- 10. Life Service Industry: the Support of Benefiting the People.- 11. Advice from Others: A Revelation from the Australian Professional Team Building.