LATEST ISSUE
2025 No.04

Using Medium- and Long-Term Plans to Guide China’s Economic and Social Development Is a Key Governance Approach of Our Party
Formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is a key governance approach of our Party. In developing these plans, we must adopt a long-term perspective that grasps overarching trends while actively soliciting public opinions and drawing on collective wisdom. This requires integrating enhanced top-level design with broad public consultation to fully incorporate social expectations, public wisdom, expert insights, and community level experience.

Fully Grasping the Requirements for Formulating and Implementing Medium- and Long-Term Plans
Formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important approach with which the Communist Party of China (CPC) governs the country. As China’s most important medium- and long-term planning tool, five-year plans represent an arrangement for advancing the strategy of socialist modernization.

Guiding Economic and Social Development: The Theory and Practice of Five-Year Planning
China has formulated and implemented 14 five-year plans since 1953. These plans have helped drive major advances in economic and social development, composite national strength, and living standards, bringing about the two miracles of rapid economic growth and long-term social stability, something the world has rarely seen before.

The Lessons and Insights of the Communist Party of China in Building Good Conduct
History teaches us that working to both promote positive trends and new practices and rectify unhealthy tendencies and harmful behaviors is an effective approach for cultivating good conduct. On the new journey ahead, we must make good use of this dual approach, working to both clear out the muddy waters and let the pure waters rise.

Promoting the Sustained, Sound, and High-Quality Development of the Private Sector Under the Rule of Law
Upholding the principles of equal treatment, fair competition, equal protection, and shared development, the law institutionalizes the CPC’s requirement to support private enterprises’ use of production factors such as capital, technology, and knowledge in various ways. This includes ensuring fair competition, facilitating investment and financing, promoting technological innovation, ensuring standardized operations, providing services, and protecting rights and interests.

Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development
With an open mindset and through concrete actions, we will advance global biodiversity conservation that is effective, inclusive, and sustainable. Embracing a broad-minded approach, we will promote the reform of the global environment governance system, so as to inject more positive energy into the building of a community of all life on Earth.

Learning from History to Advance National Rejuvenation
History serves as a mirror that illuminates both the present and the future. We remember history not to perpetuate hatred, but to cherish peace and forge a brighter tomorrow.

Always Standing on the Side of Justice and Light
Now eight decades later, at this critical moment in the intense struggle between the forces of hegemony and those who oppose it, we believe that all who stand for justice over hegemony will unite closely together. They will stand as firmly as ever on the side of the common interests of all nations, on the right side of history, and on the side of progress for humanity. Together, we will strive to secure a brighter future for all humankind.

Chinese Civilization: Consolidating Foundations While Embracing Innovation and Championing Openness and Inclusiveness
Chinese civilization is characterized by both continuity and innovativeness. These traits dictate that consolidating foundations while embracing innovation is a prerequisite for creating a new form of human advancement and the cornerstone of building a community with a shared future for humanity.