Guangdong Province Consumer Promotion Training Session and Service Industry Advancement Work Meeting Convened

On October 31, the Guangdong Province Consumption Promotion Training Session and Service Industry Advancement Work Meeting was held. Meng Fanli, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Meng Fanli emphasized the need to keep pace with the times and update concepts, led by technological innovation, conceptual innovation, and service innovation, with people, goods, and venues as the key elements, vigorously promote the accelerated implementation of new products, new services, new business forms, and new models, take multiple measures to deeply tap market potential, and continuously expand consumption with potential. It is necessary to promote the quality improvement of service consumption to benefit the people, increase support for service consumption and service industry business entities, carry out consumption promotion work in traditional and emerging fields by category, arrange New Year's Day, Spring Festival, and winter tourism activities and promotional work early, and seize the opportunity of the APEC meeting to launch more sightseeing tours and leisure vacation products for both domestic and international markets. It is necessary to promote the expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption, continuously optimize policy measures, actively promote various types of commodity consumption, and especially use more new products to better meet demand and even create and lead demand. It is necessary to cultivate and create new consumption scenarios, accelerate the advancement of consumption digitalization and networking, accelerate the high-level application of artificial intelligence across all domains, all times, and all industries, expand the supply of intelligent terminal products, and hold more debut, first-show, and first-exhibition events. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of consumption infrastructure, scientifically lay out large physical stores, rationally lay out medium-sized outlets, build convenience stores, community stores, and unmanned vending machines in densely populated areas in batch and chain formats, and build a complete commercial network covering both urban and rural areas. It is necessary to further stimulate the vitality of lower-tier markets, implement categorized measures to optimize consumption channels, enrich brand supply, and enhance service capabilities, and continuously prosper county-level consumer markets.