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.
9.
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,
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Circular of China Securities Regulatory Commission about the Centralized Register and Custody of Non-overseas Listed Shares of Overseas
Listed Companies
Zheng Jian Guo He Zi [2007] No.10
All overseas listed companies:
With a view to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of investors, intensifying the management of overseas listed companies,
improving the management of stock rights relating to the non-overseas listed shares of overseas listed companies and ensure the orderly
transfer of shares, we hereby render a circular in respect of the following matters about the centralized register and deposit of
non-overseas shares of overseas listed companies:
1.
The present Circular applies to the centralized register and custody of non-overseas listed shares of overseas listed companies which
have not publicly issued RMB common stocks within the territory of China. Where an overseas listed company has publicly issued RMB
common stocks within the territory of China, the register and custody of its non-overseas listed companies shall be governed by the
provisions on the register and deposit of RMB common stocks.
2.
The non-overseas listed shares of overseas listed companies shall be registered and be in the custody of China Securities Depository
and Clearing Corporation Limited in a centralized manner. China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited shall process
the matters about the centralized register and deposit of non-overseas listed shares of overseas listed companies according to its
operation rules.
3.
Where an overseas listed company launches initial public offerings outside the territory of China, it shall register and place all
its non-overseas listed shares in the custody of China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited and submit to this
Commission a written report on the result of centralized register and custody of its non-overseas listed shares and as well as about
the current listing of stocks within 15 working days after it gets listed outside the territory of China.
4.
A company listed outside the territory of China prior to the issuance of the present Notice shall complete the centralized register
and custody of its non-overseas listed shares prior to June 30, 2007.
5.
The term “overseas listed company” as mentioned herein means domestic stock limited companies issuing overseas-listed foreign capital
stocks. The term “non-overseas listed shares” as mentioned herein means domestic capital stocks, unlisted foreign capital stocks
and other non-overseas listed shares of overseas companies.
6.
The present Circular shall enter into force as of the promulgation date.
Appendix: Detailed Rules of China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited about Register and Custody of Non-overseas
Listed Shares of Overseas Listed Companies(Omitted)
China Securities Regulatory Commission
March 28, 2007
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