Delta to act as 'role model'

Li: Service sector identified as focal point for further opening up

Premier Li Keqiang has called for the Yangtze River Delta, to act as the "dragon head", or role model, of the country's economic transition and upgrading.

Li chaired a meeting on Friday of key leaders from Shanghai and its nearby Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces, to review their economic performance in the first quarter of the year.