US EditionChina Outlines Priorities for Next Five-Year Plan, Adds Defence Capability to Long-Term Goals
The plan sets goals for economic, technological, and defense growth with aims to modernize China and enhance military capabilities by 2035, officials said.
- The CPC's fourth plenum approved recommendations for the 15th Five-Year Plan covering 2026–2030 under the stewardship of President Xi Jinping, announced at a Friday press conference.
- Party leaders framed the plan as an early window into how Beijing will address slower growth, an ageing population and rising global tensions, officials said the next half-decade is critical for progress toward basically realising socialist modernisation by 2035.
- Officials prioritised technological self-reliance and, for the first time, the 2035 goals explicitly include defence capability, urging accelerated `integrated development of mechanisation, informatisation, and intelligentisation`.
- Officials said China will shift more attention to its domestic market, describing the plan as a `political advantage` and pledging to `take economic development as the central task`.
- Covering 2026–2030, planners are aiming for a `significant leap` in economic, scientific, defence and comprehensive national strength amid the next party congress, PLA centenary , and People's Republic of China 80th anniversary .
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The fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, being held from Monday to Thursday, will review the proposal for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), the blueprint that will guide China's economic and social development during the next five years.
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