context: The 14th 5-year plan (2021–25) ends in 2025. Government departments wrap up existing work while creating plans for 2026–30. Experts argue for strengthening industrial and innovative capabilities alongside better living standards. To build up future policy expectations, a United Front symposium was held to promote scientific and industrial innovation. The eight satellite parties under CPC leadership, headed by Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference chair Huang Huning 王沪宁, vowed to contribute further via R&D and offering policy advice.
The 14th CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) National Committee Standing Committee held its 12th Plenum on 24 June. Wang Huning 王沪宁 Politburo Standing Committee member and CPPCC chair attended the session.
Standing Committee members delivered speeches on ‘further deepening economic system reform and advancing Chinese-style modernisation’
- Cao Weixing 曹卫星 (China Democratic League)
- integrate effective market and proactive government
- build an open, efficient, fair and well-regulated unified national market
- Xu Xiaolan 徐晓兰
- improve mechanisms to encourage and guide private participation in national technological breakthroughs
- Liu Zhongfan 刘忠范 (Jiusan Society)
- refine mechanisms to integrate science and the economy
- hasten new productive forces build-up
- Zhang Lianqi 张连起
- focus on addressing urgent livelihood issues to expand domestic demand
- promote high-quality development through ‘investing in people’
- Yao Aixing 姚爱兴 (China Association for Promoting Democracy)
- deepen fiscal and taxation reforms
- foster a well-balanced and coordinated central-local fiscal relationship
- Yi Gang 易纲
- deepen financial system reforms
- boost financial support for private enterprises and scientific innovation
- offer high-quality financial services for green and low-carbon development
- Li Shijie 李世杰 (China National Democratic Construction Association)
- build diversified investment growth mechanisms to back innovation
- quicken future industries build-up
- Yan Ying 燕瑛
- promoting the efficient allocation of computing power
- coordinate industry-specific and general-purpose large AI models
- Li Huidong 李惠东 (Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang)
- reforms agricultural technology extension services
- better align tech services with industry needs
- Wang Xiaodong 王晓东
- stressed the need to better leverage county towns as connectors to promote integrated urban-rural development
- Fang Guanghua 方光华
- joint efforts by government, enterprises and universities
- promote adequate employment for university graduates
- Feng Zhenglin 冯正霖
- build a new model for real estate development to back new urbanisation and common prosperity
- Li Yao 李瑶
- expand new formats in the service trade
- promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation
- Hong Huimin 洪慧民
- proactive responses to challenges and efforts to improve both the stability and quality of foreign investment and foreign trade
Wang Guangqian 王光谦 CPPCC vice chair presided over the meeting.