State Council Office: Encourage local governments to implement policies related to digesting existing real estate inventory, and support the construction of land and service facilities for tourism projects.

On January 29, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the issuance of the "Work Plan for Accelerating the Cultivation of Service Consumption Growth Points". It mentioned cultivating a number of cities (regions) as residential destination cities. Encouraging qualified areas to utilize relevant financial funds and industrial funds to guide, improve the infrastructure of residential destination cities, and promote the upgrading and transformation of existing facilities. Revitalize and utilize idle rural land and housing according to the law. Encourage local areas to implement policies related to absorbing existing real estate and support the construction of land and service facilities for residential projects. Guide qualified areas to develop distinct residential sub-markets, cultivate high-quality residential destination brands in public areas. Strengthen regional coordination and cooperation in residential areas and promote cross-regional public service interoperability and sharing, support the appropriate expansion of public service supply for residential destinations in response to market demand. It also mentioned extending the trial period for unilateral visa exemption countries and studying the prudent expansion of unilateral visa exemptions, transit visa exemptions, and regional visa exemptions. Strengthen inbound policy and overseas promotion of inbound tourism, accelerate the global online visa application process, improve the convenience of entry and stay for foreign visitors. Enhance the development of inbound consumption scenes, innovate the scene-based experience of Chinese consumer brands, cultivate high-quality international events, performances, medical, educational, residential, health care brands. Build the "Shop in China" brand, promote the construction of an internationalized consumer environment, cultivate international consumer aggregation areas, inbound consumer-friendly business districts, optimize foreign-related payment services, increase the number of tax refund stores for departing tourists, improve multilingual signage coverage and the level of internationalized services in public places. (Source: State Council's General Office Notice on Issuance of "Work Plan for Accelerating the Cultivation of Service Consumption Growth Points")