Services set to boost growth

Opening-up gets renewed impetus in nation's top economic agenda for next year

The deepening opening-up of the services sector, and rising investor sentiment in the stock market will aid China in achieving stable economic growth next year, analysts said.

A meeting held on Thursday by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee decided to uphold "speeding up all-around opening-up" as one of the country's major tasks in 2019, according to a statement released after the meeting.