{"id":152449,"date":"2025-09-18T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152449\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:32:12","slug":"china-doubles-down-on-policy-drive-to-boost-service-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152449\/","title":{"rendered":"China Doubles Down on Policy Drive to Boost Service Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has launched a broad new initiative to boost spending on services, unveiling a raft of measures aimed at stimulating domestic demand and encouraging spending by foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, detailed in a 19-point policy document released Tuesday by nine government departments including the Ministry of Commerce, seeks to expand and upgrade services in areas such as culture, sports, tourism, and healthcare. At a Wednesday press conference, the ministry also announced that it would select around 50 cities to pilot new consumption formats and another 15 to focus on expanding inbound consumption.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/loading.gif\" alt=\"loadingImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve accessed an article available only to subscribers<\/p>\n<p>VIEW OPTIONS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has launched a broad new initiative to boost spending on services, unveiling a raft of measures aimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-152449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}