Opinion on Further Expanding the Consumption in the Area of Tourism, Culture, Sports, Health, Old-age Care, Education and Training

On 28 November 2016, the General Office of the State Council released the Opinion on Further Expanding the Consumption in the Area of Tourism, Culture, Sports, Health, Old-age Care, Education and Training (the “Opinion”), which gave the directions on further expanding the service consumption.
The Opinion focuses on the following three aspects to expand consumption, namely (1) the broad leisure industry, including, for example, health sector, old-age care sector, culture, sports; (2) the commodity distribution, such as automobile sale and environment-friendly products sale; and (3) improvement of distribution network and service quality.

In particular, expansion of consumption in the broad leisure-health industry was emphasised in the Opinion. The following policies, inter alia, were mentioned in this aspect:

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