{"id":120865,"date":"2025-05-21T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120865\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:53:09","slug":"chinas-2026-30-plan-is-in-the-works-and-it-addresses-weak-links-exposed-by-us-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120865\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 2026-30 plan is in the works \u2013 and it addresses weak links exposed by US trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing appears to be planning for a protracted battle with Washington for economic supremacy, with China\u2019s latest five-year development blueprint being drafted to sharpen its competitive edge and address weak links laid bare by the trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Xi Jinping this week called for public feedback for the nation\u2019s 2026-30 national economic development plan, with an emphasis on science and modernisation, reflecting the strategic thinking of Chinese leaders. A comprehensive catalogue of quantifiable socio-economic goals will be made public in March.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect China to continue putting greater emphasis on hi-tech advancements, manufacturing resilience and domestic consumption, given the president\u2019s repeated call for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3254801\/xi-jinpings-hi-tech-push-steals-spotlight-chinas-two-sessions-li-qiang-scales-back-presence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cnew quality productive forces\u201d<\/a>, as well as the development of future and frontier industries, while upgrading traditional manufacturing sectors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, Chinese authorities could still set a high target for gross domestic product growth \u2013 one of the most watched parameters as China tries to shore up its economy.<\/p>\n<p>It is also hoped that the next five years covered by the new plan, the 15th of its kind, will help realise <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3104736\/what-chinas-economic-plan-meet-xi-jinpings-vision-socialist?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Xi\u2019s goal<\/a> \u2013 first uttered in 2017 \u2013 for China to \u201cbasically achieve socialist modernisation\u201d by 2035.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Subsequent updates of that goal in recent years include targets such as seeing per capita GDP reach the level of moderately developed countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing appears to be planning for a protracted battle with Washington for economic supremacy, with China\u2019s latest five-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[3801,51,1395,53915,36358,1700,53921,53918,53914,53919,53922,53916,16,15,49,53920,6709,1773,53917],"class_list":{"0":"post-120865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-academy-of-social-sciences","12":"tag-chongqing","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-fujian-province","15":"tag-industrial-bank","16":"tag-liu-he","17":"tag-national-development-and-reform-commission","18":"tag-office-of-the-central-financial-and-economic-affairs-leading-group","19":"tag-tsinghua-financial-review","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-wang-yiming","24":"tag-washington","25":"tag-xi-jinping","26":"tag-yang-weimin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114548048153238535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}