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
energy storage has taken off over the past five years and is playing an ever larger role in PRC decarbonisation
R&D
energy
environment & carbon neutrality
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21 Jan 2026
As the traditional GDP-fuelled model’s marginal returns weaken, Beijing is addressing its constraints by shifting to investing in health and careers across education, employment, healthcare, social security, and other livelihood sectors.
health & aged care
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16 Jan 2026
Beijing recognises that a new global economic paradigm must take shape, with trade running both ways. ‘Expand international circulation’ is a priority under commerce in the 15th 5-year plan proposal.
economy
trade
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06 Jan 2026
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STEM surge before the slide
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market forces to shape PRC energy storage
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Beijing embraces human capital
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export to China?
monitoring
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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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