beijing, jan. 3 (xinhua) -- china will step up efforts to promote the tran*ormation and upgrading of outsourced *s, with the view to achieving better structure and higher quality of the *s sector, the state council's executive meeting chaired by premier li keqiang decided on friday.
premier li keqiang stressed the significance of growing high-tech and high-value-added outsourced *s in advancing structural adjustments and driving industrial upgrading.
data from the ministry of commerce shows a sound momentum of growth in the outsourced *s. between january and july last year, chinese firms signed * outsourcing contracts worth 722.58 *llion yuan (about 102.62 *llion u.s. dollars), up by 7.4 percent year-on-year.
"d*loping outsourced *s *s keep foreign investment and employment stable, and also contributes to economic upgrading. though our country started relatively late in outsourced *s, we have made fairly fast progress and have our own advantages," li said.
the friday meeting decided on steps to build greater capacity in undertaking outsourced *s at a faster pace as part of the effort to facilitate economic upgrading.
*rmation technology will be applied to promote "*s plus." new * models such as crowdsourcing, cloud outsourcing and platform subcontracting, and new types of industry such as *-embedded manufacturing will be d*loped. efforts will be made to enhance the competitiveness in undertaking outsourced *s in pharmaceutical research and d*lopment, design and accounting, and to strengthen the capa*lity of contracting and delivering such *s.
* outsourcing will be gradually included in the "single-window" in international trade. in the * outsourcing demonstration cities, materials imported for such * sectors as research and d*lopment, design, testing and maintenance shall be regulated as bonded goods on a trial basis.
"we must deepen the reform of government functions and further open up the outsourced *s sector. a negative list for * access has been formulated. areas off the list should be opened up as much as possible, and government oversight needs to be accommodating yet prudent to meet the fast-d*loping trend of the digital economy," li said.
it was decided at the meeting to revise the catalog of key areas in outsourced *s to promote the upgrading toward higher value-added outsourced *s and * * jobs for young people, college graduates in particular.
"we must promptly summarize the experience gained in the pilot programs and expand their coverage," li said.
"good performance in outsourced *s will also * build our domestic brands," li said.
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