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State Council deliberates measures to promote service consumption

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China’s economic policymakers continue to pay lip service to increasing service consumption. On January 16, Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting that highlighted service consumption as a policy priority. Some context: Retail sales data show a widening divergence between service...