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Government announces an industrial upgrading drive
📅 5 March 2015The 2015 Government Work Report placed “Made in China 2025” on the national agenda, aiming to upgrade manufacturing through technology and higher domestic capabilities. The strategy linked...
New national foreign-investment negative list is issued
📅 28 June 2018The revised negative list reduced restrictions on foreign investment in selected sectors, including finance and manufacturing. The list-based approach marked a shift toward permitting activity...
Fourteenth Five-Year Plan is approved
📅 11 March 2021The plan prioritized technological self-reliance, domestic demand, green transition and “dual circulation.” It formalized a strategy to reduce external vulnerabilities and direct investment toward...
Ten pilots test market-based allocation of land, labor, capital, technology, and data
📅 11 September 2025Two-year pilots seek to remove barriers to factor flows and promise equal access for different ownership forms. Extending markets to data and technology shows how reform has shifted from price...
Full 15th-plan recommendations set a 2026-2030 development framework
📅 28 October 2025The published recommendations prioritize modern industry, the real economy, technological self-reliance, domestic demand, and unified national markets. They articulate a development path built...
Private-investment measures open infrastructure and service projects to more firms
📅 11 November 2025The package supports private capital in selected rail, nuclear, and urban-infrastructure projects, asks for clearer access rules, and encourages SME digitization and infrastructure REITs. It seeks...
Government investment-fund evaluation rules tie capital allocation to national priorities
📅 12 January 2026Trial rules evaluate how government investment funds allocate capital against industrial-policy priorities and the modern industrial system. Public finance is used to shape innovation and steer...
Finance ministry package backs private investment and consumer lending
📅 20 January 2026The package extends interest subsidies on service-sector business loans and personal consumption loans through 2026 and adds guarantees for private investment. It uses fiscal instruments to...
Cross-regional electricity allocation is targeted for improvement
📅 11 February 2026The policy aims to improve interprovincial electricity allocation and transmission coordination. It treats a unified energy market as necessary for balancing resource-rich inland regions with...
National development-planning law codifies the five-year-plan system
📅 12 March 2026The NPC adopted a law governing formulation and implementation of national development plans. It gives statutory form to planning that has guided investment and reform since the early PRC,...
NPC approves the 15th Five-Year Plan outline
📅 12 March 2026The 2026-2030 outline establishes goals for high-quality development, innovation, consumption, social provision, and modernization. It reasserts national planning as a tool for economic sovereignty...
Industrial and supply-chain security regulations formalize resilience policy
📅 7 April 2026The regulations establish a framework for monitoring and responding to risks to industrial and supply chains. They deepen the state's role in managing globalization under geopolitical pressure,...
Investment-approval reform streamlines decisions and adds lifelong accountability
📅 15 April 2026Guidelines simplify project approvals, update enterprise-investment catalogs, standardize tenders, and create lifetime responsibility for government-investment decisions. The reform seeks faster...
State Council targets a 100-trillion-yuan service sector by 2030
📅 21 April 2026Guidelines seek to expand service capacity, logistics, software, health, childcare, eldercare, culture, and tourism. The ambition reflects services' growing share of output and employment, but...
Energy-conservation and carbon-reduction guidelines link green transition to industrial policy
📅 23 April 2026Guidelines coordinate energy efficiency and carbon reduction across production and infrastructure. They position climate policy as part of industrial modernization and energy security, while the...
Outbound-investment regulation sets rules for Chinese firms investing abroad
📅 1 June 2026A new regulation promotes higher-quality outbound investment while protecting investor interests and safeguarding sovereignty and security. It formalizes China's role as a source of global capital and...
15th-plan program for agriculture and rural modernization is released
📅 2 June 2026The five-year plan identifies tasks for agricultural productivity, food security, and rural modernization. It continues the post-revolution project of bringing rural areas into national development...
Carbon-peaking action plan extends climate governance into the 15th plan
📅 9 July 2026The action plan covers energy restructuring, low-carbon industrial development, and transition in key sectors. It turns national climate commitments into a five-year policy program, using...
Consumption targets anchor growth strategy in the 15th-plan period
📅 14 July 2026The government set a 60-trillion-yuan retail-sales target and called for consumption-driven growth through 2030. This signals an effort to rebalance from investment and exports toward domestic demand,...
SME five-year plan sets targets for firms, innovation, and business conditions
📅 3 September 2026The 2026-2030 plan aims to improve SME growth, innovation, and development conditions. It recognizes smaller firms as sites of employment and innovation within a system dominated by large state and...
Guidelines define a coordinated national approach to new quality productive forces
📅 9 October 2026Nineteen measures span science and technology, industry integration, new development models, institutional innovation, and talent. The guidelines explicitly balance government and market,...