The new move in 2026 is its tight link to 'new quality productive forces' in farming. The thrust now shifts from 'find more to eat' to 'grow and make it better'. The No. 1 doc text promotes wider use of AI tools on farms. It frames these as ways to raise yield, lift quality, and cut waste, rather than chase pure volume.
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25 Feb 2026
Eight years after banning waste imports, Beijing is seeking to reduce, reuse, and recycle more of its own domestic solid waste. A three-year nationwide campaign against illegal dumping, launched in 2025, has already identified 9,000 illegal sites and close to 30,000 infractions.
environment & carbon neutrality
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13 Feb 2026
Unlike the mass university expansion of 1999, when admissions doubled within a single year, the 2025 initiative is measured and selective, focused on ‘double first-class’ institutions and disciplines aligned with PRC strategic industries.
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10 Feb 2026
Outbound data transfers from the PRC have, since 2021, operated under a dense web of security assessments and reporting requirements; large companies must justify transfers via exhaustive documentation. The resulting compliance burden reshapes MNC management and ‘games of interest’ between headquarters and local PRC entities.
governance
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05 Feb 2026
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No. 1 document 'Big Food' concept
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can Beijing clean up solid waste?
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STEM surge before the slide
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how does Hainan's data regime work?
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political trendspersonnelPLAanti-corruptionaccountabilitytransparency...read more09 Feb 2026
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growth modelTaiwan/HK/Macaupolitical trendsUnited Frontsubnational relations...read more04 Feb 2026
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science and technologynew materialsnuclearrenewablessolarelectricity...read more03 Feb 2026
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strategic and emerging industriestraditional industrytransport...read more29 Jan 2026
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Luo XiangInstitute of Criminal Law Director China University of Political Science and Law
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