The full text of a document of recommendations for China's development priorities for the 2026-2030 period from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was released on Tuesday.
The Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development was adopted at the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on Oct 23.
The Explanation of the Recommendations was also made public on Tuesday.
The explanation was made by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, at the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
The document consists of 15 parts, which are divided into three main sections.
The first section gives a general overview of China's major development achievements in the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the important position of the 15th Five-Year Plan period as a critical stage in building on past successes to break new ground for basically achieving socialist modernization, profound and intricate changes facing China's development environment in the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the guiding philosophy for economic and social development in the 15th Five-Year Plan period, and the core principles to follow and major objectives to pursue during this period.
The second section mainly focuses on the key issues bearing on overall and long-term interests and makes sector-specific arrangements for strategic tasks and main measures during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. It discusses approaches and major tasks in the key areas of industrial development, scientific and technological innovation, domestic market, economic structure, opening up, rural revitalization, coordinated regional development, cultural development, public wellbeing, green development, security and development, and national defense.
The third and final section primarily makes arrangements for tasks related to upholding and strengthening the Party Central Committee's centralized, unified leadership, advancing socialist democracy and rule of law, carrying out work concerning Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, and mobilizing the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of the whole society.
The document puts forward a range of objectives, such as ensuring economy keeps growing within an appropriate range, fully unleashing the potential for growth, ensuring personal incomes increase in step with economic growth and remuneration rises in tandem with labor productivity increases, and continuing to expand the middle-income group.
The document calls for accelerated progress in scientific and technological self-reliance, cultivating new drivers of growth, and achieving breakthroughs in innovation and industrial upgrading.
The document emphasizes the strategy of expanding domestic demand, stimulating the vitality of all market entities.
It also calls for efforts to promote broader international economic flows, expand opening up at the institutional level, safeguard the multilateral trading system, and pursue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
The document calls for high-quality full employment, optimized income distribution system, better education, high-quality development in the real estate sector, and equitable access to basic public services.
It calls for modernizing China's national security system, improving public safety and governance, and accelerating the modernization of national defense and the armed forces.
The document emphasizes strengthening the CPC Central Committee's centralized, unified leadership, improving mechanisms for implementing major decisions, and advancing the battle against corruption.
As an overarching blueprint to guide national development, five-year plans outline China's targets, strategies, priorities and policy orientations in various fields. Starting in 1953, consecutive five-year plans have contributed to China's rapid economic growth and long-term social stability, becoming an important governance approach.
Full text of recommendations for next five-year plan released
