Services to maintain healthy growth pace, says minister

Both Served by China and Made in China will provide more impetus for the high quality development of the Chinese economy, as the country is keen to push its service trade competitiveness from a medium level to the next level, officials said on Tuesday.

China will continue to maintain a fast growth pace in service trade over the long term, said Zhong Shan, China's minister of commerce.

The rapid growth in knowledge-intensive service trade has become the key driver for the development of China's service trade, Zhong said at the opening ceremony of the 2019 China International Fair for Trade in Services, which opened in Beijing on Tuesday.