This December, China’s 2025 Central Economic Work Conference rolled out a fresh playbook for high-quality growth amid global uncertainty 🌍💼. With supply chains reconfiguring—from smartphone hubs in Shenzhen to EV lines in Shanghai—China’s policymakers are rethinking how to keep the engine running.
What’s changing? Instead of just pumping in big investments, China is shifting gears from “more” to “better.” Policies now focus on boosting efficiency: targeting fiscal spending, reusing idle assets, and making every yuan count.
Plugging in tech & green vibes 💡🌱 Innovation gets top billing. Expect stronger support for AI governance, advanced manufacturing, green transitions and the digital economy. It’s about syncing tech, industry and finance—taking breakthroughs from the lab to our daily apps.
3 big bets for 2026:
- Expanding domestic demand: supercharging consumption in smart living, green products & health services to fuel an internal growth engine.
- Fostering new growth drivers: leaning into AI, advanced manufacturing and low-carbon tech.
- Reforms & opening up: streamlining state-owned enterprises, unifying market rules and syncing with global standards.
Risk management is front and center too, with careful moves on real estate, local debts and housing funds to keep surprises at bay. Instead of reacting to crises, the aim is to head them off before they start.
Bottom line? China is dialing up structural upgrades, fine-tuning policy levers for resilience and doubling down on innovation to thrive in an unpredictable world 🚀.
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Rebalancing China's high-quality development amid global uncertainty
cgtn.com
