The Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments jointly issued the "2026 Work Plan for Improving Service Consumption and Benefiting the People"

People’s Finance Network, April 3—Recently, nine departments including the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the “2026 Work Plan for Improving Quality and Benefiting the People in Service Consumption” (hereinafter referred to as the “Work Plan”). The “Work Plan” adheres to the principle of closely combining benefiting people’s livelihoods and promoting consumption, as well as investing in goods and investing in people. It focuses on upgrading and improving the infrastructure for service consumption, while also addressing people’s livelihood concerns such as “the elderly and children.” It provides targeted support for the development of livelihood areas such as domestic services, elder care, and childcare, and promotes sound interaction between consumption and investment, as well as between supply and demand. The “Work Plan” sets out 64 specific task measures across six areas: improving policy support, innovating consumption scenarios, building platform carriers, expanding opening-up to the outside world, strengthening standards guidance, and optimizing the consumption environment. Centering on traditional service consumption sectors such as catering and accommodation, elder care and childcare, culture, entertainment and tourism, and sports and health, as well as emerging growth areas such as domestic services, online audio-visual, inbound consumption, and performance services, it coordinates efforts from both the supply and demand sides to create a number of new consumption scenarios that have a broad impact and high visibility.