UPDATE: CHANGE OF LOCATION
Now at Leiden University Campus Spui – 3B.38 (Spui 5, 2511 BL The Hague)
China’s new five-year plan for 2026–2030 will be unveiled this week, marking a key moment in the country’s economic and political trajectory. As China’s principal strategic planning instrument, the five-year plan sets out overarching priorities for economic reform, industrial policy, technological development, social governance and national security. The forthcoming plan – the 15th since the 1950s – will shape policy debates and implementation processes not only at the central level in Beijing, but across provinces, municipalities and state-owned enterprises in the years ahead.
In this China Knowledge Network (CKN) Knowledge Session, we will examine what the new five-year plan means in substance and in process. What exactly is a five-year plan? How does it move from a high-level blueprint adopted in Beijing to concrete policy through layers of local implementation?
