The State Council approved the “15th Five-Year Plan” to expand consumption: by 2030, the consumer consumption rate will increase markedly, and the total amount of social zero will reach about 60 trillion yuan 

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on July 13, the State Council issued an approval on the “15th Five-Year Plan” to expand consumption, agreeing in principle to the “15th Five-Year Plan” to expand consumption. According to the “Plan”, by 2030, the overall scale of the consumer market will continue to expand, the consumer consumption rate will increase markedly, and the whole society's consumption of goods and services will grow rapidly. The total retail sales of social consumer goods will reach about 60 trillion yuan, and the driving effect of consumption on economic growth will further increase. The consumption structure has been further optimized. The per capita consumption expenditure on services has steadily increased as a share of the per capita consumption expenditure of residents, developmental and improved consumption continues to grow, the scale of digital consumption continues to expand, and the consumption gap between urban and rural areas, regions, and groups is gradually narrowing.

Consumption capacity continues to improve, high-quality and full employment has made new progress, residents' income growth is synchronized with economic growth, the social security system is more optimized and sustainable, and residents are more motivated to spend, have more stable expectations, and stronger confidence. Consumer supply is more optimized, the quality of products and services continues to improve, the supply system is more complete, the consumption model scenarios are richer, and the adaptability between supply and demand has been further enhanced.

The consumer environment has improved markedly, the standard system and credit system for important products and services have been improved, the consumer infrastructure has been improved, and the convenience, comfort and satisfaction of consumption have greatly improved. Promoting the further improvement of the consumption system and mechanism, achieving positive results in cleaning up and optimizing unreasonable restrictive measures in the field of consumption, the long-term mechanism for expanding consumer consumption is more complete, and the coordination and linkage between consumption policies and other economic and social policies has been further strengthened, forming a higher level and more dynamic consumer market.

The original text is as follows:

State Council's Reply on the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan to Expand Consumption”

State Letter [2026] No. 66

National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce:

We have received your “Request for Submission of the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” to Expand Consumption (Draft for Review)” (Development Reform and Employment [2026] No. 847). The current approval is as follows:

1. In principle, I agree with the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” to expand consumption (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”), and please carefully organize and implement it.

2. The implementation of the “Plan” should adhere to Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, adhere to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, thoroughly implement special actions to boost consumption, expand service consumption, upgrade commodity consumption, enrich business scenarios, enhance consumption capacity, optimize the consumption environment, improve institutional policies, improve the long-term mechanism for expanding consumer consumption, and give better play to the fundamental role of consumption in economic development.

3. The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government should take expanding consumption as an important task in the region's economic and social development during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, strengthen organizational leadership, clarify work responsibilities, explore effective ways to expand consumption according to local conditions, and implement the goals, tasks, policies and measures proposed in the “Plan” in line with actual practice.

4. All relevant departments under the State Council should refine and improve relevant policies and measures in accordance with the division of responsibilities, and strengthen collaborative guarantees. Important policies, major projects, and key projects involved in the implementation of the Plan must be submitted for approval in accordance with the procedures. The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce should strengthen coordination and strengthen dynamic monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the Plan. Request reports on important matters in a timely manner in accordance with the procedures.

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“Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” to expand consumption

In order to continuously expand domestic demand and vigorously boost consumption, this plan was formulated in accordance with the “Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China”.

I. General Requirements

Adhere to Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the CPC, earnestly implement the Fourth Plenary Session, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, adhere to the general tone of steady progress, adhere to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, give full play to the advantages of hyperscale markets, conform to the rules and phased characteristics of consumer development, and adhere to people-oriented, innovative leadership, supply and demand adaptation, market-led, government-led, internal and external linkage, and in-depth collaboration between urban and rural areas Implement special actions to boost consumption and expand services Consumption, upgrade commodity consumption, enrich business scenarios, enhance consumption capacity, optimize the consumption environment, improve institutional policies, improve the long-term mechanism for expanding consumer consumption, enhance the endogenous motivation and reliability of the domestic cycle, give better play to the fundamental role of consumption in economic development, and better meet the growing needs of the people for a better life.

By 2030, the overall scale of the consumer market will continue to expand, the consumer consumption rate will increase markedly, and the whole society's consumption of goods and services will grow rapidly. Total retail sales of social consumer goods will reach about 60 trillion yuan, and the driving effect of consumption on economic growth will further increase. The consumption structure has been further optimized. The per capita consumption expenditure on services has steadily increased as a share of the per capita consumption expenditure of residents, developmental and improved consumption continues to grow, the scale of digital consumption continues to expand, and the consumption gap between urban and rural areas, regions, and groups is gradually narrowing. Consumption capacity continues to improve, high-quality and full employment has made new progress, residents' income growth is synchronized with economic growth, the social security system is more optimized and sustainable, and residents are more motivated to spend, have more stable expectations, and stronger confidence. Consumer supply is more optimized, the quality of products and services continues to improve, the supply system is more complete, the consumption model scenarios are richer, and the adaptability between supply and demand has been further enhanced. The consumer environment has improved markedly, the standard system and credit system for important products and services have been improved, the consumer infrastructure has been improved, and the convenience, comfort and satisfaction of consumption have greatly improved. Promoting the further improvement of the consumption system and mechanism, achieving positive results in cleaning up and optimizing unreasonable restrictive measures in the field of consumption, the long-term mechanism for expanding consumer consumption is more complete, and the coordination and linkage between consumption policies and other economic and social policies has been further strengthened, forming a higher level and more dynamic consumer market.

II. Promote service consumption, improve the quality of service consumption and benefit the people

(1) Improve consumption of lifestyle services. Implement actions to improve the quality of service consumption and benefit the people, and carry out service consumption promotion activities around key areas. Improve the quality of catering services, consolidate the main responsibility of operators for food safety, implement regional catering brand cultivation projects, and encourage local communities to build food clusters and specialty snack industry clusters. Promote the high-quality development of the lodging industry and cultivate a number of characteristic high-quality hotel brands and homestay brands. Expand the supply of high-quality domestic service, enhance the skills of domestic service personnel, improve the domestic service standard system, and cultivate a number of leading enterprises and well-known brands in the domestic service field.

(2) Expand pension consumption. Accelerate the improvement of the three-level old-age service network in counties and villages, optimize the supply pattern of home-based, community-based, institutional professional support, and medical care, and improve the care system for the disabled and mentally disabled elderly. Support and encourage social forces to participate in expanding the supply of inclusive old-age services. Promote the high-quality development of the Yinfa economy. Implement the county pension service improvement plan project. Strengthen scientific and technological empowerment and promote the upgrading of digital intelligence in the field of old-age services. Support the use of vacant sites to renovate and expand pension institutions as needed according to law and regulations. Accelerate the certification of vocational skill ratings for skilled personnel in old-age services, and establish a professional qualification system for elderly service workers.

(3) Support childcare spending. Accelerate the construction of an inclusive childcare service system, support the construction of comprehensive childcare service centers, and support the development of various models such as childcare institutions, community-embedded childcare, kindergarten daycare, employer care, and family childcare centers. Improve the price formation mechanism for inclusive childcare services. Carry out actions to improve the quality of childcare services, and implement projects to improve the capacity of childcare personnel. Expand the supply of childcare products and services to meet diversified and personalized consumption needs.

(4) Develop cultural and tourism consumption. Expand the consumption supply of high-quality culture and tourism, and deepen the integrated development of “cultural tourism+100 industries” and “100 industries+cultural tourism”. Implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, and improve convenience measures such as delayed and delayed opening of cultural and expo venues. Optimize the supply of performing arts products and enhance the driving effect of performing arts. Enrich the supply of high-quality film and television productions, and improve the quality of online literature and online audiovisual. Develop new forms of culture, support the development of animation, cultural and intangible heritage brands, and encourage the development of cultural products such as digital art and Guochao culture and creativity. Promote high-quality tourism development and create boutique routes and high-quality tourist destinations. Enrich specialty tourism products and cultivate projects such as cruise yachts, motorhome camping, industrial tourism, and research tourism. Develop the nighttime cultural tourism economy and host events such as lantern festivals, temple fairs, light and film shows, and night water tours according to local conditions. Improve the quality of transportation services and add special travel trains.

(5) Promoting healthy consumption. Deeply implement special actions to promote healthy consumption. Continue to strengthen the professional services and health promotion functions of retail pharmacies, and build a number of “health posts”. Optimize the supply of health food and formula food for special medical purposes. Accelerate the construction of rehabilitation hospitals and nursing homes, and support medical and health institutions that are in a position to do so to carry out integrated medical care services. Vigorously develop new service formats such as health examinations, health consultation, and health management. Promote the integrated application of next-generation information technology and smart devices, and promote the development of “Internet+ Healthcare”. Continuously improve the traditional Chinese medicine health service system.

(6) Encourage sports consumption. Promote the development of the tournament economy, support mass sports events where conditions are available, and build high-profile quality events, professional leagues, and tournament brands with independent intellectual property rights. Expand fitness and sports consumption scenarios, revitalize vacant venue resources, support the construction of sports venue facilities around the public in a position to do so, encourage local construction of sports promotion centers, and promote the opening and sharing of public stadiums. Actively develop the outdoor sports industry and promote the construction of high-quality outdoor sports destinations. Nurture and expand the snow and ice economy.

(7) Improve the quality of education and training consumption. Promote institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions, and social organizations to share quality education resources to meet the diverse and personalized learning needs of society. Standardize the development of non-subject training in culture, art, science and technology, sports, etc., and improve licensing conditions. Encourage high-level cooperation with internationally renowned institutions of higher learning in China. Encourage relevant institutions to carry out market-oriented vocational skills training and improve training evaluation mechanisms. Develop community colleges, night schools for citizens, and training for the elderly in an orderly manner. Develop new digital education resources.

III. Promoting the expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption

(8) Promote the consumption of bulk durable goods. Better meet housing consumption needs, optimize the supply of affordable housing, increase the supply of improved housing due to urban policies, and standardize the development of the housing rental market. Implement housing quality improvement projects, build safe, comfortable, green and intelligent “good houses”, steadily promote the renovation of urban villages, dilapidated houses, and old urban neighborhoods, support residents' independent renewal, and support the age-appropriate renovation and intelligent upgrading of old houses. Implement actions to improve the quality of property services and expand the content of property services. Expand automobile consumption, promote innovation and development throughout the automobile distribution and consumption chain, promote the circulation of used cars, and expand automotive aftermarket consumption such as car modifications, leasing, racing, and motorhome camping. Support the intelligent upgrading of household appliances consumption, develop next-generation smart terminals, promote the interconnection of smart home devices, and promote the development of single-product intelligence to whole-house intelligence.

(9) Steadily increase consumption of lifestyle products. Promote consumption of agricultural products, increase the supply of green, organic, famous, premium, and geographical indication agricultural products, and promote accurate links between production, supply and marketing. Innovate the production of specialty food products, develop nutritious and healthy snack foods and beverages, health foods, and special diet foods, and cultivate a number of traditional dominant food production areas and local specialty food industries. Implement the National Whole Grains Action Plan. Promote innovation and quality improvement of household products, and support cultural and creative enterprises and manufacturing enterprises to jointly develop high-quality daily necessities with both practical functions and aesthetic value. Expand textile and garment consumption and support the development of the textile and garment industry to the middle and high-end. Strengthen the supply of multi-functional intelligent sports and fitness equipment, ice, snow and outdoor sports equipment products. Support the development of classic historical industries such as arts and crafts, the Four Treasures of Literature, silk, tea, and traditional Chinese medicine. Improve the emergency insurance and supply system for necessities of life, and do a good job of securing supply and price stability for basic consumer goods.

(10) Promote technology application and product innovation. Enhance innovation capabilities in the consumer goods related industry chain, strengthen applied basic research, cutting-edge technology research and development, and forward-looking product function research and development, give full play to the role of leading enterprises, innovation platforms, and research institutions, and expand the supply of high-quality new consumer goods. Raise the level of design in the consumer goods industry, promote the deep integration of design innovation and digital technology, and promote new models such as crowdsourced design and collaborative design. Promote new models of efficient and responsive manufacturing, carry out personalized customization and flexible production, implement the “Thousand Factories, One Thousand Faces” transformation plan, and cultivate a number of flexible manufacturing plants.

(11) Strengthen independent brand building. Improve brand cultivation and development mechanisms, encourage enterprises to establish brand cultivation management systems, and improve the ability to manage and operate the entire brand life cycle. Systematically cultivate the Chinese consumer luxury goods phalanx and establish a Chinese consumer luxury goods system with corporate brands and regional brands as the main body. Strengthen the cultivation and protection of time-honored Chinese brands, domestic brands, and trendy fashion brands, actively promote the integration of Chinese cultural elements into brand building, support the development of original intellectual property (IP) brands, promote “IP+ consumption”, and develop consumption of peripheral derivatives. Continue to organize Chinese Brand Day activities. Organize the “Premium Foreign Trade Tour to China” event. Raise the level of brand internationalization and expand overseas communication channels. Promote the implementation of the “Thousand Sails to Sea” action plan for cultural trade.

4. Cultivate and create new consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios

(12) Develop digital consumption. Promote the high-quality development of digital consumption, further promote “artificial intelligence+consumption”, and implement actions to improve digital consumption. Expand consumption of digital products, increase the effective supply of next-generation smart terminal products such as artificial smartphones and computers, smart wearables, intelligent robots, and desktop-level 3D (3D) printing devices, accelerate the development and interconnection of intelligent security and video care systems, etc., and launch pilot projects for intelligent connected vehicle access and road access. Increase consumption of digital services, use artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other technologies to empower lifestyle services and scenic spots, promote integrated applications of artificial intelligence with education, medical care, culture, tourism, sports, etc., and expand smart application scenarios. Innovate digital content consumption, launch more high-quality digital cultural and expo products, strengthen the supply of ultra-high-definition audio and video content on radio and television, and develop new forms of movies such as virtual reality movies and LED digital cinemas. Expand digital consumption channels, support digital marketing for physical commercial and trade enterprises, guide the healthy development of instant retail and live e-commerce, etc., and improve the quality e-commerce standard system.

(13) Promote green consumption. Strengthen the production and promotion of green and low-carbon products, enrich the supply of green agricultural products, green home furnishings, green building materials, new energy vehicles, etc., and develop green catering, green lodging, and green housekeeping. Build a green supply chain, improve the green product certification and labeling system, guide the use of environmentally friendly and degradable packaging materials, expand renewable energy consumption demand, and promote green procurement. Promote green recycling, improve the recycling system for renewable resources such as waste household appliances and furniture, raise the second-hand commodity trading market and the operating level of business enterprises, and standardize the development of second-hand commodity trading platforms. Promote the concept of green consumption, a low-carbon lifestyle, and improve the incentive mechanism for green consumption.

(14) Promote the startup economy according to local conditions. Cultivate and build a number of leading economic enterprises and platform carriers, support domestic and foreign high-quality product and service brands to set up high-energy first stores, host events such as launches, debuts, and first exhibitions, and optimize relevant approval and filing processes. Build a launch gathering platform to enhance the launch function of the exhibition. Accelerate the cultivation of a number of first-time economic professional service agencies. Facilitate the import of first new products.

(15) Cultivate experiential consumption. Focus on consumer experience to cultivate new consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios. Promote consumer industries such as retail, culture, tourism, health, and sports to deepen the application of technology, strengthen creative leadership, and enhance and expand the consumer experience. Strengthen the development and transformation of cultural resources, and use cultural elements to empower consumer goods manufacturing and service supply innovation. Support consumer carriers such as shopping streets in key business districts to upgrade to immersive and interactive diverse consumption scenarios, and launch pilot projects for new consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios. Actively develop consumer products such as animation, trendy clothing, trendy games, etc. Improve the experiential consumer market and industry standard system, and cultivate new industries and industries. Establish and improve management mechanisms adapted to new consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios, implement inclusive and prudential supervision, strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights, and step up the crackdown and punishment of illegal acts.

(16) Expand inbound consumption. Optimize the inbound consumption environment and build a “buy in China” brand. Steadily expand the scope of visa-free countries and continuously optimize visa-free transit policies. Further expand international routes, focusing on increasing the number of direct international flights, such as Europe, America, and the “Belt and Road” countries. Improve the level of international services in public places, optimize the payment environment for inbound consumption, and facilitate the processing of services such as rapid customs clearance, accommodation registration, transportation, telecommunications services, and attraction reservations for inbound tourists. Optimize departure tax refund facilitation measures, increase departure tax refund stores, and actively promote the “buy now, refund” service. Encourage more domestic products to be sold at port duty-free shops and duty-free shops in the city. Build consumer brands, cultural landmarks, and experiential activities with high identity and appeal. Cultivate international markets for education, medical care, exhibitions, etc.

5. Focus on improving consumption capacity

(17) Promoting high-quality and full employment. Deeply implement priority employment strategies and improve employment promotion mechanisms. Actively cultivate new occupations and new jobs, and expand new employment space. Support all types of business entities to stabilize and expand jobs, stabilize and expand employment for key groups, and optimize the policy environment for entrepreneurship and employment promotion. Continue to carry out large-scale vocational skills upgrading training, and build and strengthen public training bases and enterprise training bases. Strengthen the implementation of cash-for-work and expand the scale of payment of labor remuneration. Improve employment support and public service systems.

(18) Promote residents' income growth through multiple channels. Improve the distribution policy system according to factors to promote those who work hard to get more, those with high skills to get more, and those who innovate to get more. Improve workers' wage determination, reasonable growth, and payment guarantee mechanisms, improve the minimum wage standard adjustment mechanism, steadily raise the minimum wage standard, and strengthen macro-level guidance on enterprise wage distribution. Continuously improve the business environment for small and micro enterprises and individual businesses. Promote the sustainable and healthy development of the real estate market, continue to consolidate the steady, moderate and positive development trend of the capital market, and increase the property income of urban and rural residents through multiple channels. Strengthen redistributive adjustments such as taxation, social security, and transfer payments.

(19) Improve social security policies. Improve basic pension and basic medical insurance funding and entitlement adjustment mechanisms, gradually raise basic pensions for urban and rural residents, and reasonably raise financial subsidy standards for basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents. Expand the coverage of unemployment and work-related injury insurance, pay unemployment insurance benefits in full and on time to eligible unemployed persons, etc., and establish and improve an occupational injury protection system. Increase the participation rate of people with flexible employment, migrant workers, and people with new forms of employment. Implement long-term care insurance. Improve the hierarchical classification social assistance system, standardize and improve the mechanism for dynamic adjustment of subsistence insurance standards linked to per capita consumption expenditure, and actively develop service-type social assistance.

(20) Reasonably increase public consumption. Reasonably increase spending on public services such as education, medical care, and old-age care. Optimize the childcare allowance system and carry out in-depth pilot childcare service subsidy demonstration projects. Implement inclusive actions for basic public health services and carry out actions to improve basic medical services. Implement government procurement policies to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

6. Vigorously optimize the consumption environment

(21) Raise consumer quality standards. Improve the consumer standards system for consumer goods and services, promote standard system revisions in key areas, promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade certification and other systems, and improve policies and measures for domestic and foreign trade products with the same standards and the same quality. Implement actions to improve the quality of consumer supply, continue to promote excellent quality engineering in the manufacturing industry and actions to improve quality certification for small and micro enterprises, promote the construction of high-quality service certification, and implement product and service quality grading. Develop credit consumption and further develop “Credit +” projects in the consumer sector. Improve regulations relating to the management of consumer product recalls. Implement measurement and welfare projects, keep a close eye on key areas such as bazaars and gas stations, and strictly crack down on illegal acts such as shortages.

(22) Protecting consumers' rights and interests. Innovate diversified consumer dispute resolution. Continue to unblock and standardize channels for consumer complaints, promote online consumer dispute resolution mechanisms, and develop more offline unwarranted return units. Innovate and develop the cultivation of safe consumers, and develop basic units such as safe consumer stores and restaurants, and agglomeration areas such as safe consumer markets, business districts, and scenic spots. Standardize business activities such as online sales and live streaming. Continue to step up price supervision and inspection efforts, seriously investigate and punish illegal acts such as failure to clearly label prices and price fraud in accordance with regulations, rectify acts such as low price dumping in accordance with the law, and promote high real price quality. Strictly crack down on illegal acts of infringement and counterfeiting. Implement actions to clean up the rural consumer market. Improve the prepaid consumption supervision model.

(23) Create a fair and open market environment. Relaxation of service industry entry restrictions in an orderly manner, and optimization of the market entry environment for new business formats and fields. Strengthen the protection of platform responsibilities and user rights, and promote anti-monopoly and fair competition in the platform economy. Promote the orderly expansion of openness in the fields of telecommunications, the Internet, education, culture, medical care, etc., and increase the supply of high-quality goods and services. Optimize and improve cross-border e-commerce retail import policies and expand imports of high-quality goods from abroad. Organize the China International Import Expo, China International Consumer Goods Fair, etc. with high quality, and gather high-quality global consumer resources.

(24) Improve the multi-level consumption system. Deepen the cultivation and construction of international consumer center cities, create consumer brands and scenarios leading global consumer trends, and create a globally attractive consumer environment. Develop an international consumption environment and support relevant cities to improve the level of internationalized and facilitated services. Support Hainan to build an international tourism consumption center. Relying on key urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, we promote the differentiated layout of consumption functions between cities and the collaborative development of industrial chains. Adapt to population movements and changes in consumer demand, and stimulate consumption vitality in declining markets. Strengthen collaboration between urban and rural consumption, open up connecting channels between urban and rural consumption, and promote the integrated development of urban and rural consumption. Implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of county commerce, promote the renovation and upgrading of “tens of thousands of stores”, and expand the county consumer market. Strengthen the implementation of consumer assistance and strengthen collaboration between production and marketing regions.

(25) Strengthen the construction of consumer infrastructure. Promote healthy interaction between consumption and investment, and expand effective investment in the consumer infrastructure sector. Implement actions to improve the quality of urban commerce, deepen pilot modern commercial circulation systems, promote the renovation and upgrading of old commercial districts, and support the upgrading of commercial facilities and equipment for offline consumption. Promote the construction of embedded service facilities, complete communities, and convenient living circles in urban communities, and improve convenient commercial facilities in the community. Promote the construction of national logistics hubs and key national cold chain logistics bases, and improve the three-level logistics distribution system in counties and villages. Strengthen the renovation of facilities such as public parking lots, charging facilities, and expressway service areas. Carry out actions to strengthen the foundation of tourist attractions and revitalize existing cultural and tourist facilities. Accelerate the construction of new information infrastructure such as fifth-generation mobile communication (5G), gigabit optical networks, and mobile Internet of Things, promote the construction of a national integrated computing power network, and promote the “signal upgrade” campaign.

7. Strengthen the improvement of the system and mechanism to promote consumption

(26) Clean up and optimize unreasonable restrictive measures. Promote the transformation of automobile consumption from purchase management to usage management, guarantee the car purchase needs of “unsettled” car-free households over a period of time, and explore ways to manage differentiated vehicle purchase indicators in urban and suburban areas. Support all regions to adjust and optimize real estate policies according to urban policies to better meet residents' rigid and improved housing needs. Deepen the reform of the housing provident fund system, expand the scope of use, and focus on meeting the diverse housing needs of depositors at different stages. Optimize the approval management of performing arts activities, promote “one-stop” departmental joint approval and online processing of the entire process for large-scale mass events, and strictly implement the content review responsibility system at the place where the tour project premiered.

(27) Improve fiscal and financial support mechanisms. Combine promoting consumption with benefiting people's livelihood and repairing shortcomings, strengthen inclusive policies that directly reach consumers, and increase government funding for people's livelihood security expenses. Funding channels such as central budget investments and local government special bonds are used in an integrated manner to support the construction of eligible consumer infrastructure. Make good use of special funds for fiscal and financial coordination to promote domestic demand, and make better use of the role of policy funding. Support financial institutions to expand credit investment in the consumer sector and increase credit support for consumer sector operators. Optimize the implementation of interest rate discount policies for personal consumption loans and loans for service industry operators. Encourage insurance institutions to develop relevant insurance products and services to meet the protection needs of key consumer sectors.

(28) Implement a rest and leave system. Labor laws are fully implemented to effectively guarantee workers' rights and rights to legal rest and vacation. Promote the revision of the “Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees”, strictly implement the paid leave system for employees, and enhance the rigidity of the implementation of the system. Encourage units and employees to combine paid annual leave with traditional festivals and local special events to arrange flexible peak vacations. Support places in a position to do so to promote spring and autumn vacations for primary and secondary schools.

8. Organization and implementation

Insist on implementing the Party's leadership into all aspects of the whole process of expanding consumption. All regions and departments should implement the goals, tasks, policies and measures proposed in this plan in line with actual practice. Strengthen full-caliber consumption statistics and optimize statistical monitoring of service consumption and new consumption formats and models. The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce should strengthen coordination and do a good job of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the plan. Request reports on important matters in a timely manner in accordance with the procedures.

This article was edited by the State Council, Zhitong Finance Editor: Jiang Yuanhua.