Sound bites

At present, service trade has become the focus of global free trade and the focus of China's efforts to advance high-quality development. The key to promoting high-level opening-up with a focus on trade in services lies in implementing the plan to "steadily expand institutional opening-up with regard to rules, regulations, management, and standards" put forward in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. For example, we should accelerate the process of opening-up service sectors such as health, education, information and culture both internally and toward the outside world by fully implementing pre-establishment and post-establishment national treatment, proactively align with market rules, talent standards and development regulations of international advanced service industries and innovate institutions and mechanisms for free and convenient trade in services.