China education plan, profit surge · June 30

China publishes its five-year education plan.

Today's events

Education plan.
The State Council issued its 2026–2030 education plan, vowing to integrate schooling, science, and talent training and make China a leading education nation by 2030.¹Jun 29 · State Council
Industrial profits.
Profits at large industrial firms rose 18.8% in the first five months; computing and electronics makers more than doubled their earnings.²Jun 27 · Stats Bureau
Party ranks.
The Communist Party reported 101.3 million members and 5.43 million grassroots branches at the end of 2025, days before its July 1 founding anniversary.³Jun 30 · Central Org Dept
National market.
Lawmakers urged fast-tracking a national unified-market regulation to break local protectionism and curb ruinous price wars in solar, electric-vehicle, and online-retail sectors.⁴Jun 30 · NPC
Homegrown computing.
State scientists launched a full-stack platform that auto-translates Nvidia-style code to run on Chinese chips, cutting reliance on foreign computing tools.⁵Jun 29 · Academy of Sciences
Renewable quotas.
China's planning and energy agencies issued binding renewable-energy consumption targets, for the first time covering non-electricity uses, effective August 1.⁶Jun 26 · Energy Admin
Reusable rocket.
Private firm LandSpace completed a static-fire test of its reusable Zhuque-3 rocket, clearing the last ground checks before a planned flight.⁷Jun 29 · China Mil.
Merger review.
The market regulator opened a six-month drive to tighten merger-review oversight and steer firms out of cut-throat price competition through consolidation.⁸Jun 30 · Market Regulator
State-firm expulsion.
Anti-graft investigators expelled the former chairman of China Mobile's Henan unit from the Party for bribery and sent his case to prosecutors.⁹Jun 26 · CCDI

Voices

“Education, science and technology, and talent are the foundational, strategic support for a modern socialist country; science and technology are the primary productive force and competitiveness.”
Xi Jinping, “Advancing Education, Science and Talent Together,” Qiushi · Jun 29¹⁰

“China’s measures are entirely legitimate, reasonable and lawful, aimed at resolutely curbing the reckless moves of Japan’s ‘new militarism.’”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun · Jun 29¹¹

“Low-price competition in our advantage industries — online retail, new-energy vehicles, solar power — remains acute, weakening the drive to innovate and damaging the industry’s ecosystem.”
NPC Standing Committee Member Yang Zhenwu · Jun 30⁴

“The measures break the macro goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality into quantifiable, assessable rigid constraints, a key lever for expanding absorption and boosting consumption.”
National Energy Administration official · Jun 26⁶

“This platform connects algorithms, code, and applications end-to-end, helping China build a self-controllable, efficient and easy-to-use homegrown scientific-computing ecosystem.”
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Jun 30⁵

“He abandoned his ideals, used his office to win project contracts for others, and illegally accepted huge sums in bribes.”
Discipline Inspection Commission, on Yuan Jianguo · Jun 26⁹

Sources

State Council, “Notice on Issuing the Education Development 15th Five-Year Plan” (Guofa [2026] No. 19), June 29, 2026. gov.cn/zhengce/…/education-15th-five-year-plan
National Bureau of Statistics, “Profits of Industrial Enterprises Above Designated Size Grew 18.8% in January–May 2026,” June 27, 2026. stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/…/industrial-profits-jan-may
Central Organization Department, “CPC Membership Reaches 101.286 Million; Grassroots Party Organizations Total 5.431 Million,” June 30, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/…/cpc-membership-statistics
National People’s Congress, “Standing Committee Members Advise on Building a National Unified Market,” June 30, 2026. npc.gov.cn/c2/…/national-unified-market
Chinese Academy of Sciences, “‘Yisuan Fangzhou’ Domestic Computing System Software Full-Stack Platform Launched,” June 30, 2026. cas.cn/syky/…/domestic-computing-platform
National Energy Administration, “Implementation Measures for Minimum Renewable Energy Consumption Share Targets and Consumption Responsibility Weights,” June 26, 2026. nea.gov.cn/…/renewable-consumption-measures
China Military Online, “Zhuque-3 Reusable Rocket (Flight Test 2) Completes Static-Fire Test,” June 30, 2026. 81.cn/kt/…/zhuque-3-static-fire
State Administration for Market Regulation, “Special Campaign to Improve the Effectiveness of Merger-Review Antitrust Oversight,” June 30, 2026. samr.gov.cn/xw/…/merger-review-campaign
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, “Yuan Jianguo, Former Chairman of China Mobile Henan, Expelled from the Party,” June 26, 2026. ccdi.gov.cn/yaowenn/…/yuan-jianguo
Qiushi / State Council, “Xi Jinping, ‘Advancing the Development of Education, Science and Technology, and Talent in an Integrated Way’ (Qiushi, Issue 12),” June 29, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/…/xi-education-science-talent
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun’s Regular Press Conference,” June 29, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/…/guo-jiakun-jun-29