Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China.

This 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development serves as the comprehensive blueprint for China's national development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030). It outlines a strategic shift toward "Chinese-style modernization," prioritizing the quality of economic growth over mere quantity and emphasizing the development of "new quality productive forces".
The Plan is structured into several key pillars: 1. Economic strategy focuses on building a modern industrial system and consolidating the foundation of the real economy by optimizing traditional industries while cultivating emerging and "future" industries. 2. Science and technology pillar aims for high-level self-reliance in science and technology, focusing on original innovation and tackling "bottleneck" core technologies to lead the development of new productive forces. 3. Digital transformation promotes the "Digital China" initiative, enhancing the supply of computing power, algorithms, and data to empower various sectors through intelligent technology. 4. Market and reform seeks to build a high-level socialist market economic system by stimulating the vitality of various business entities and deepening the "national unified large market" to expand domestic demand. 5. Opening up strategy continues the commitment to high-level opening up, improving the quality of trade and investment cooperation to create a win-win global environment.
The Plan emphasizes the 2026-2030 timeframe to establish a new development pattern that balances security and development, while it also integrates education, technology, and talent development as a unified strategy to support long-term modernization goals. It sets a target of a 17% reduction in CO₂ emissions per unit of GDP by 2030. continues to prioritise the large-scale expansion of non-fossil power, and introduces a target of doubling non-fossil power capacity to around 4,700 GW by 2035. It includes measures to enhance climate governance by improving greenhouse gas accounting methods, developing product-level carbon footprint standards, and establishing a national emissions factors database. It also outlines efforts to strengthen climate resilience, disaster prevention systems and biodiversity protection, through optimising ocean-economy statistical monitoring and ocean-ecology early-warning system, strengthening monitoring and early-warning system for insect pests and animal diseases, etc.