During the "14th five-year plan" period, china will focus on these matters

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025. The plenary session heard and discussed the work report delivered by Xi Jinping on behalf of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and reviewed and approved the "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development."

The plenary session deployed key tasks for the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period.

Build a modern industrial system to consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy.

• Focus on developing the real economy, adhere to the directions of intelligence, greenness, and integration, accelerate the construction of a strong manufacturing country, a strong quality country, a strong aerospace country, a strong transportation country, and a strong network country. Maintain a reasonable proportion of the manufacturing industry and build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.

• To optimize and enhance traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging and future industries, promote the high-quality and efficient development of the service sector, and build a modern infrastructure system.

Accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening to lead the development of new productive forces.

• Seize the historical opportunity of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong nation in education, science and technology, and talent, enhance the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, comprehensively strengthen independent innovation capabilities, seize the commanding heights of technological development, and continuously foster new productive forces.

• Strengthen original innovation and tackle key core technologies, promote the deep integration of scientific and industrial innovation, advance the development of education, technology, and talent in a coordinated manner, and further the construction of Digital China.

Build a strong domestic market and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

• Adhere to the strategic focus of expanding domestic demand, persist in benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, closely integrate investment in goods and investment in people, guide new supply with new demand, create new demand with new supply, promote positive interaction between consumption and investment, supply and demand, and enhance the endogenous driving force and reliability of the domestic economic cycle.

• We must vigorously boost consumption, expand effective investment, and resolutely eliminate obstacles and bottlenecks hindering the establishment of a unified national market.

Accelerate the establishment of a high-level socialist market economy system to enhance the driving force for high-quality development.

• Persist in and improve the basic socialist economic system, better leverage the guiding role of economic system reform, improve the macroeconomic governance system, and ensure steady and long-term high-quality development.

• To fully stimulate the vitality of various business entities, accelerate the improvement of the system and mechanism for market-based allocation of factors, and enhance the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance.

Expand high-level opening-up and create a new situation of win-win cooperation.

• Steadily expand institutional opening-up, uphold the multilateral trading system, expand international circulation, and use opening-up to drive reform and development, sharing opportunities and achieving common development with countries around the world.

• Actively expand independent opening, promote innovative development of trade, broaden the space for two-way investment cooperation, and build a high-quality Belt and Road Initiative.

■Accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and solidly advance the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.

• Prioritize addressing the "three rural" issues as a major focus of the entire Party's work, promote urban-rural integration, continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, push rural areas to essentially have modern living conditions, and accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural nation.

• To enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, promote the construction of livable and business-friendly beautiful countryside, and improve the effectiveness of policies that strengthen, benefit, and enrich farmers.

■Optimize regional economic layout and promote coordinated regional development.

• Leverage the synergy of regional coordinated development strategies, major regional strategies, main functional area strategies, and new urbanization strategies to optimize the layout of major productive forces. Utilize the role of key regional growth poles to build a complementary, high-quality regional economic layout and territorial spatial system.

• Enhance regional development coordination, promote regional interconnected development, optimize the territorial spatial development pattern, further advance people-centered new urbanization, and strengthen marine development, utilization, and protection.

■Inspire the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation and promote the flourishing development of socialist culture.

• Adhere to the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological field, root in the profound Chinese civilization, follow the trend of information technology development, and develop a new era of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics that possesses strong ideological guidance, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence, and solidly promote the construction of a culturally strong country.

• To promote and practice the socialist core values, vigorously prosper cultural undertakings, accelerate the development of cultural industries, and enhance the dissemination and influence of Chinese civilization.

■Increase efforts to ensure and improve people's well-being, and solidly advance the common prosperity of all people.

• Adhere to doing our best while acting within our capacity, strengthen inclusive, fundamental, and basic livelihood construction, address the pressing needs and concerns of the people, facilitate social mobility, and improve the quality of life for the people.

• To promote high-quality and full employment, improve the income distribution system, provide education that satisfies the people, enhance the social security system, drive high-quality development in real estate, accelerate the construction of a healthy China, promote high-quality population development, and steadily advance the equalization of basic public services.

■Accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development to build a Beautiful China.

• Firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, using carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as a guide. Collaboratively advance carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth, strengthen the ecological security barrier, and enhance the momentum for green development.

• To continue to advance pollution prevention and ecosystem optimization, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, actively and steadily promote and achieve carbon peaking, and accelerate the formation of green production and lifestyle.

■Promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, and build a higher-level safe China.

• Firmly implement the holistic approach to national security, follow the path of socialist social governance with Chinese characteristics, and ensure that society is dynamic yet orderly.

• To improve the national security system, strengthen national security capacity building in key areas, enhance the level of public security governance, and improve the social governance system.

■Achieve the military's centennial goal as scheduled and advance the modernization of national defense and the armed forces with high quality.

• Implement Xi Jinping's thinking on strengthening the military, adhere to the military strategic guidelines for the new era, uphold the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army, and implement the system of ultimate responsibility resting with the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Follow the new "three-step" strategy for the modernization of national defense and the armed forces, advance the political strengthening of the military, reform and strengthen the military, strengthen the military through science and technology, strengthen the military with talent, and govern the military according to law. Simultaneously engage in struggle, preparation for war, and construction, accelerate the integrated development of mechanization, informatization, and intelligentization, and enhance strategic capabilities to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests.

• To accelerate the development of advanced combat capabilities, promote the modernization of military governance, and consolidate and enhance the integrated national strategic system and capabilities.