[Global Times Comprehensive Report] The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2025. *, general secretary of the Central Committee, made an important speech. The plenary session listened to and discussed * 's work report entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and reviewed and approved the Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. The plenary session fully affirmed the work of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee since the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and spoke highly of my country's major achievements in development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The plenary session put forward the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, including achieving remarkable results in high-quality development, greatly improving the level of self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology, making new breakthroughs in further comprehensively deepening reform, and further consolidating the national security barrier. "Building a modern industrial system", "Accelerating self-reliance and self-reliance in high-level science and technology", "Building a strong domestic market and accelerating the construction of a new development paradigm"... As soon as the communiqué of the plenary session was published, it immediately attracted the attention and interpretation of many international media. The Financial Times quoted Bert Hoffman, a professor at the National University of Singapore, as saying that the five-year plan is largely continuous: "At present, the global situation is turbulent and all kinds of events are frequent, but China continues to push forward the socialist modernization plan." Saudi Al Arabiya TV said that the 15th Five-Year Plan not only draws a blueprint for China's development in the next five years, but more importantly, it injects valuable certainty into the uncertain world economy with its unique Chinese ideas, Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions.

Foreign media noted that "maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing industry"

The plenary session pointed out that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for basically realizing socialist modernization to lay a solid foundation and make comprehensive efforts, and it plays an important role in inheriting the past and the future in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization.

The plenary session put forward the main objectives of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period of economic and social development: high-quality development achieved remarkable results, the level of scientific and technological self-reliance greatly improved, further comprehensively deepen reform achieved new breakthroughs, the degree of social civilization significantly improved, people's quality of life continuously improved, beautiful China construction made new major progress, national security barriers more consolidated. on this basis again struggle for five years, by 2035 to realize China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, comprehensive national strength and international influence greatly jumped, GDP per capita reached the level of medium-developed countries, people's lives are happier and better, basic realization of socialist modern

The Associated Press mentioned in a report on the 23rd that the communiqué of the Fourth Plenary Session stated that "China's development environment is facing profound and complex changes during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period" and that "uncertainties and unpredictable factors have increased." Wu Zhuoyin, senior economist at the French Foreign Trade Bank, said that the communiqué shows that the China government is confident in responding to external challenges through domestic policy tools. In addition, the plenary session proposed "accelerating self-reliance and self-reliance in high-level science and technology","improving the income distribution system" and "accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development." The plenary session also proposed to "adhere to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand and adhere to benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption." The Associated Press quoted economists as saying that this is very important to China's economic growth.

The plenary session proposed that the focus of the development of the economy should be placed on the real economy, adhere to the direction of intelligent, green and integrated, maintain the reasonable proportion of the manufacturing industry, and build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone.

The British "Financial Times" said that the plenary session also reiterated "strengthening the military through science and technology" and "accelerating the construction of advanced combat capabilities." South Korea's "Chosun Ilbo" stated that on the Taiwan issue, the plenary session emphasized "promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and promoting the great cause of reunification of the motherland."

China Bank Research Institute senior researcher Liang Qing said on the 23rd to the "Global Times" reporter, from the view of the communiqué, the direction of economic and social development in the "15th Five-Year" period is very clear. high-quality development is the main line of the next five years, at the same time, the setting of objectives in the economy, society and other fields is also relatively high, requiring "reasonable results", "significant improvement", "significant improvement" and so on. Liang Qing said, on the one hand, in the past, China has accelerated the economic transformation and escalation, and laid a solid foundation for the future high-quality development; on the other hand, the next five years is the critical period of China's basic realization of socialist modernization, the

¡°Rise in productivity is the greatest hope for national rejuvenation.¡±

Songlin, the chief economist of the Dutch International Group, Greater China region, mentioned in the analysis article published on 23rd, that compared to the "14th Five-Year Plan", the priorities (policy) presented in the plenary communiqué were slightly adjusted.In the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, after the main objectives of economic and social development, "building a modern industrial system, consolidating and strengthening the real economic foundation" was listed as the first major deployment, followed by "accelerating the high level of technological self-reliance", and then "building a strong domestic market".

Zhou Shaolai, a researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times reporter on the 23rd that under the current complicated situation at home and abroad, the communique proposed to "consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy" and also called for "insisting on putting the focus of economic development on the real economy". This shows that the focus of future development will be more "real", and the real economy can absorb a large number of employed people, which is the foundation of people's livelihood security. In addition, the communique emphasizes "adhering to economic construction as the center", indicating that at the current stage, grasping the economy and stabilizing growth are still the top priority.

Foreign media paid more attention to the words mentioned in the plenary communiqué of "accelerating self-reliance and self-reliance in high-level science and technology, and leading the development of new productive forces." South Korea's "Daily Economic News" said on the 23rd that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed a blueprint for driving economic growth in the next five years with technological innovation and high-tech autonomy as the core. This policy has been interpreted as related to the increasingly fierce competition between China and the United States in high-tech fields such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI).

According to the Japanese newspaper, the Communication of the Plenary Session of the Fourth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) showed that China will attach great importance to technological innovation and self-reliance, which is consistent with this year¡¯s ¡°14th Five-Year Plan¡± direction. China¡¯s priority sectors, such as electric vehicles and biotechnology, have increased competitiveness globally, and the development of autonomous semiconductor supply chains has also become an important goal in China.

Germany's Youth World newspaper said that people have high hopes for the new five-year plan, which aims to guide China's development from 2026 to 2030. It is becoming increasingly evident that it consolidates a strategic shift started in the last Five-Year Plan, which has long been linked to the concept of "a new level of productivity quality". For China, quantitative growth will still play an important role. However, the focus of development will further tilt towards cutting-edge technologies.

Neil Thomas, a China politics researcher at the Asia Society's China Issues Analysis Center, told the Financial Times that overall, the 15th Five-Year Plan shows that China is more focused on security and self-reliance than ever before. Thomas said in a report that the U.S. government has exacerbated global uncertainty and economic risks. China's leaders have emphasized increasing investment in new technologies, which not only gives China technological advantages, but also aims to increase productivity-this is the key to China's future economic growth and the greatest hope for advancing the national rejuvenation plan.

The 15th Five-Year Plan will contribute to world stability

According to the Austrian "News" report, Christian Goebbels, professor of Hanology at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, believes that it is necessary to look at the "15th Five-Year Plan" in conjunction with the long-term goals of the Chinese Communist Party leadership. 2049 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of New China, when China is expected to rise to become a world tech power. China's goal is to become a world leader in the field of AI by 2037 and to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035.

According to the Finnish Helsinki Times, China¡¯s five-year plan is more than just a policy blueprint. It closely combines top-level strategies with local implementation and public participation. From the institutional level, the outstanding feature of China¡¯s planning mechanism is its continuity and synergy between governments. Analysts believe that this coherence reduces policy volatility and enhances the country¡¯s long-term implementation capabilities. The report also stated that at the global level, the Communist Party of China has positioned the ¡°15th Five-Year Plan¡± as a domestic development roadmap and also sees it as a contribution to world stability. China intends to promote ¡°common development¡± through fair trade, infrastructure cooperation and climate cooperation.

In an interview with the Global Times on the 23rd, Egypt¡¯s renowned expert on Asia and China, Ahmed Derabik, said that the 20th Plenary Session of the Fourth Central Committee is of great and far-reaching significance, and China will move forward toward greater prosperity. China is shifting from the traditional growth model to the new growth paradigm with advanced technology and innovation as its core. This concept of development with new quality productivity as its core is not only the engine of China¡¯s own high-quality development, but its successful practice also provides other developing countries with a traceable pathway to cross-sectional development through scientific and technological innovation.

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