"China Development Report 2026" premiered in Beijing
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- On September 30, the "China Development Report 2026" was officially released in Beijing.
- The report, prepared by the Development Research Center of the State Council, records the ideological, institutional and practical results of China's modernization process in 2025, and includes five important research results in the fields of artificial intelligence, capital markets and renewable energy.
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Why It Matters
The "China Development Report" has been released for four consecutive years and aims to record the historical process of Chinese modernization. 2025 is the year when the “14th Five-Year Plan” comes to an end and the “15th Five-Year Plan” is planned.
China News Service, Beijing, September 30. On September 30, the launch ceremony of the Chinese and English versions of the "China Development Report 2026" prepared by the Development Research Center of the State Council was held in Beijing.
The "China Development Report 2026" records the ideological, institutional and practical achievements formed in the process of promoting Chinese modernization in 2025, and includes "The international community has widely paid attention to and positively evaluated China's high-quality development achievements in the 14th Five-Year Plan" and "Cultivation of high-growth service consumption areas into New Economic Growth Points", "Significant Impacts and Suggestions of the Development of Artificial Intelligence", "Promoting the High-Quality Development of China's Capital Market through Basic Institutional Reform", "Continuous Efforts to Increase the Proportion of Renewable Energy Power Generation in China to Help Achieve the Carbon Peaking Target with Higher Quality" and other five important research results of the Development Research Center of the State Council.
Yang Zhengwei, deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council and member of the Party Leadership Group, said that the "China Development Report" has been released for four consecutive years and has always adhered to the original intention of objectively recording the historical process of Chinese modernization and in-depth research on various problems and challenges faced by China's development. 2025 is the year when the “14th Five-Year Plan” comes to an end and the “15th Five-Year Plan” is planned. It is also an extraordinary year in the process of Chinese modernization. The "China Development Report 2026" records the new progress made in China's development in 2025, providing a rich sample for all parties to observe China's development. The report also comprehensively records China's development achievements at the theoretical, institutional and practical levels during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. It has important practical significance and historical value, and provides a real reference for countries around the world and all sectors of society to understand how China seizes opportunities and responds to challenges in a complex and ever-changing international environment.
Combining the core topics of this year's report, he shared four thoughts: first, the path choice of world modernization tends to be diverse and inclusive; second, the historical process of modernization shows a step-by-step and gradual feature; third, the endogenous driving force of Chinese-style modernization comes from new productive forces and reform and opening up; fourth, the results of Chinese-style modernization have always been shared with all countries in the world.
The Chinese version of "China Development Report 2026" is jointly published by China Development Press and People's Publishing House, and the English version is jointly published by Foreign Languages Press and China Development Press.
Open Questions
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