A daily brief from Chinese government sources
The summit's deliverables are all on the record now. The text Beijing chooses to foreground instead is a decade of Xi's remarks on the real economy, collected into the Party journal and closing on one instruction — meet external pressure by building harder at home.
Day 4 · Trump–Xi summit Day 79 · Iran war
“Our economy got its start from the real economy, and it must rely on the real economy to move into the future.”
CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping, Qiushi article · May 161
“China has always believed that dialogue and negotiation are the right path, and that resolving things by force offers no way out.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun · May 152
“The positive results of the China-U.S. trade talks show that, with mutual respect and equal benefit, the two sides can find solutions through dialogue and cooperation.”
Commerce Ministry Spokesperson · May 163
“The anti-corruption struggle remains grave and complex; we must deepen our study and grasp of corruption's new trends and new features.”
Zhang Xiaojin, Supreme People's Procuratorate · May 154
“Anhui's greatest source of confidence in pursuing innovation is the backing of the nation's strategic scientific and technological strength.”
Wang Qingxian, Governor of Anhui · May 155
“We have woven artificial intelligence into our geophysical-survey technology, so the reservoir can be clearly mapped and the gas pool made visible.”
Liu Wei, Sinopec Southwest Oil & Gas · May 136
Drafting · 2026–2030
The 2026–2030 plan is being drafted now. Xi's real-economy article sets its lead task — manufacturing modernization — while the State Council's annual lawmaking slate and the central enterprises' draft plans are explicit groundwork.
Active · 2023–present
Xi's collected article names this doctrine the strategic priority for 2026–2030; today's central-enterprise innovation plan and the 868-service AI registry are its operational edge — AI and advanced manufacturing as the growth engine.
Active · 2014–present
Security through domestic supply, not safer imports. The Sichuan ultra-deep shale field pushes internal gas reserves into a new frontier, and the 2026 lawmaking plan queues an Electricity Law revision to match.
China's Five-Year Plans are the central economic and social planning instrument of the Party-state. The 15th Five-Year Plan is being drafted now; it will be ratified at the 20th Central Committee's 5th Plenum in autumn 2026 and adopted by the National People's Congress in March 2027. Xi Jinping's January 20, 2026 speech to provincial and ministerial leaders — republished in Qiushi on April 30 — laid out the political-economic framing.
The closing 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025) is in its final operational year. Its themes — dual circulation, common prosperity, and the "30/60" carbon-peak / carbon-neutrality targets — carry into the 15th plan rather than restart.