On October 30, 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission issued by Order No. 29 the Catalogue for Guiding Industry Restructuring (2019 Version), which shall come into force on January 1, 2020. The 2019 version enumerates 48 industries and 1,477 industry items, including 821 items that are encouraged for development in China, 215 items that will be restricted, and 441 items that will be phased out.

A total of 822 industry items, or more than 50 percent of the total, have been revised. Compared with the previous version, the new catalogue added four industries into the encouraged category- human resources, artificial intelligence (AI), elderly care and nursery services, and domestic services; removed the fire protection industry from the restricted category; and added the mining industry to the obsolete category.