A government work report filed Thursday to the nation’s top legislature for consideration states that China has set its economic growth target for 2026 at between 4.5% and 5% and would attempt to improve performance in practice. This year’s primary development goals also include adding more than 12 million new jobs in urban areas and keeping the assessed urban unemployment rate at about 5.5%.
Additional goals include maintaining a basic equilibrium in the balance of payments, attaining a grain output of about 700 million tonnes, keeping the increase in the consumer price index at about 2%, and guaranteeing that personal income growth corresponds with economic growth. Additionally, the report intends to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by around 3.8%.
In its intensifying rivalry with the United States, China presented a five-year plan on Thursday to accelerate scientific advancements and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its industrial economic engine. It framed technology domination as a fundamental national security objective.
Beijing’s 15th strategic plan since implementing Soviet-style quinquennial policy cycles in the 1950s outlines a wager that, in spite of mounting structural pressures, technology, not consumption, will propel its next stage of development.
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