Chinese Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao Friday called for the development
of China's service industry, saying that the service industry is an
important driving force for China's economy and a major solution to
the serious employment issue.
Speaking at a teleconference on the service industry, he said that
while most of the major industrial and agricultural products are in
a state of relative over-supply, the demand for good services keeps
growing.
He
said that developing the service industry will be employed as a
major means to solve the employment issue in the near future, and
the government will create a sound environment to boost development
in this sector.
He
said that he expected this sector to grow faster than the national
economy, at an annual rate of around 7.5 percent during China's Tenth Five-Year Plan
period (2001-2005).
(Xinhua News
Agency April 6, 2002)