High-tech seen as key to industrial upgrade

Push for more robust domestic market part of plan to maintain stable growth

China aims to maintain stable industrial growth in 2019 by cultivating a more robust domestic market and further leveling the playing field for foreign and private enterprises, the nation's top industry regulator said on Friday.

The plan came as the nation's industrial output, an economic indicator measuring industrial activity, is forecast to expand by 6.3 percent in 2018, meeting the target of around 6 percent growth for this year.