The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for China to build a well-off society in an all-round way, deepen reform and opening up, accelerate the transformation of economic development mode, and promote the great development of service industry. Accelerating the development of service industry is an important task to promote the adjustment of economic structure and the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, an effective way to adapt to the new situation of opening to the outside world and enhance comprehensive national strength, and an inherent requirement to expand employment and meet the growing material and cultural needs of the people.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the development of service industry is an important basis for implementing the requirements of the Outline of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China, guiding the overall deployment of China's service industry development, and compiling special plans (guiding opinions) for various fields of service industry and local service industry development plans.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Service Industry Development covers service industries and service fields that can be developed in a market-oriented way.