Lahore, Jan. 6 -- China will step up efforts to promote the transformation and upgrading of outsourced services, with the view to achieving better structure and higher quality of the services sector, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Friday. Premier Li Keqiang stressed the significance of growing high-tech and highvalue-added outsourced services in advancing structural adjustments and driving industrial upgrading. Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows a sound momentum of growth in the outsourced services. Between January and July last year, Chinese firms signed service outsourcing contracts worth 722.58 billion yuan (about 102.62 billion U.S. dollars), up by 7.4 percent year-on-year. "Developi...