{"id":533006,"date":"2025-10-28T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533006\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:54:58","slug":"why-china-may-be-banking-on-institutional-strength-to-implement-next-5-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533006\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China may be banking on \u2018institutional strength\u2019 to implement next 5-year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s \u201cinstitutional strength\u201d will help the country tackle \u201cmajor tests\u201d over the course of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3329953\/chinas-leaders-chart-next-5-year-plan-they-hear-echoes-long-ago?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">next five-year plan<\/a>, analysts and state media have said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The country\u2019s latest development plan, which is due to start next year and run until 2030, comes at a time when Beijing is facing increasing obstacles to its long-term ambitions both at home and abroad \u2013 particularly its intense rivalry with the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s first five-year plan was introduced in 1953. The country has since strengthened its resilience, making it far better equipped than before to navigate challenges, according to Zheng Yongnian, dean of the public policy school at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cDuring the 14th five-year plan period [which ends this year], we faced numerous \u2018black swan\u2019 events \u2013 from Donald Trump\u2019s trade war to international geopolitical conflicts \u2013 all of which were unforeseen, yet China pulled through.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe 14th plan was far from easy, but as we move into the 15th, there is now a greater sense of certainty,\u201d Zheng told The Beijing News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur institutional strengths and economic foundation \u2013 these sources of certainty \u2013 give us greater confidence and ability to bravely face the major tests amid high winds, rough waves and even raging storms of the 15th five-year plan period,\u201d Zheng added, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3330062\/china-pledges-notable-progress-fourth-plenum-concludes-5-year-road-map?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">using language that closely followed a communique published last week<\/a> after the fourth plenum \u2013 a major Communist Party meeting to discuss the new five-year plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u201cinstitutional strength\u201d will help the country tackle \u201cmajor tests\u201d over the course of the next five-year plan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[3801,172513,51,14787,98416,32,1700,150096,172512,172514,172511,28515,41327,16,15,49,1773,44067,146790],"class_list":{"0":"post-533006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-beijing-news","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cold-war","12":"tag-communist-party","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-five-year-plan","16":"tag-mao-zedong","17":"tag-national-institute-of-strategic-studies","18":"tag-peoples-republic","19":"tag-soviet","20":"tag-tsinghua-university","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-xi-jinping","25":"tag-xinhua","26":"tag-zheng-yongnian"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115451194491068442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533006","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=533006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}