Economic structure is optimizing

Quality of growth steadily improving, as nation rolls out further supportive measures, official statistics show

China's economic structure has continued to optimize, as new growth drivers strengthened last year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.

The value added of the tertiary sector increased by 7.6 percent year-on-year to 46.96 trillion yuan ($6.92 trillion) in 2018, accounting for 52.2 percent of the country's gross domestic product, up by 0.3 percentage point from 2017. The growth rate of the value added of the tertiary sector was 1.8 percentage points higher than that of the secondary industry.