Measures to improve household services

The National Development and Reform Commission has released a guideline on improving household services for 2017 together with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce, as well as the Ministry of Information and Industrial Technology. The guideline makes clear a 20 percent increase in business revenue, and household service industries are expected to play a bigger role in absorbing the labor force from rural areas, urban laid-off workers, wom- en in central and western China, as well as the labor force in their 40s or 50s. About 28 million people will be working in the household service industry, the guideline says, laying a solid ground for the industry’s longterm development.