Southwest China"s Chongqing Municipality set out to build a modern service industry system and burnish "golden calling cards" of service development such as "Chongqing Trade Global."

　　Since the national conference, regions and departments have coordinated their planning and accelerated the building of service brands. By 2030, China"s service sector is expected to top 100 trillion yuan ($14.6 trillion) in total scale, with higher quality, a better structure and improved standards.

　　With that target in sight, the Chinese economy is undergoing a fresh "system upgrade."

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　　Building more "China Services" brands is an inevitable choice that follows the laws of economic development and drives economic transformation and upgrading.

　　China"s service sector has steadily expanded in scale and continuously improved in quality and efficiency since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, playing an important role in supporting industrial upgrading, meeting people"s livelihood needs and driving job growth, according to Xi.

　　Scale is the most direct yardstick. In the first half of this year, the service sector accounted for 59.5 percent of GDP, making it the largest sector of the national economy, and contributed 66.1 percent to economic growth, emerging as the main engine of expansion. The figures reflect the sector"s weight in high-quality development and in Chinese modernization as a whole.

　　The Chinese economy sits at a critical window as it shifts from factor-driven to innovation-driven growth, and from investment-led to consumption-led expansion. Projections show that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the service sector"s contribution to GDP growth will rise steadily, making it the economy"s main engine in every sense.

　　This is also where the key lies in answering people"s expectations for a better life and in expanding domestic demand.