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According to the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development, twill he 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) stress that the country should achieve greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, while also steering the development of new quality productive forces.

The 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30) will be critical as the country works to reinforce the foundations and push ahead on all fronts toward basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035, and it will thus serve as a key link between the past and the future, according to the communique.

At a press briefing on Friday, China’s Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun said that the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) has outlined four arrangements regarding sci-tech innovation from 2026 to 2030.

• strengthening original innovation and breakthroughs in core technologies,
• promoting deep integration between scientific and industrial innovation,
• advancing the coordinated development of education, sci-tech and talent, and
• boosting the construction of the Digital China initiative.

China will accelerate innovation in digital intelligence technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and enhance the efficient supply of computing power, algorithms, and data.

In 2024, China’s total national R&D expenditure exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan ($507.6 billion), an increase of 48 percent compared to 2020, data from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology showed. The country’s comprehensive innovation capability ranking rose from 14th in 2020 to 10th in 2024.