A New Blueprint for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period A New Journey for Chinese Modernization--Keynote Speech by H.E. Ambassador Xie Feng at the “Innovation, Openness, Shared Development” Global Dialogue U.S. Session
擘画“十五五”新蓝图，推进中国式现代化新征程——谢锋大使在“创新·开放·共享发展”全球对话会美国专场上的主旨演讲
Vice Minister Shen Haixiong,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends,
尊敬的慎海雄副部长，
女士们、先生们、朋友们：
Good evening. Yesterday, the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded its fourth plenary session, an event that had drawn global attention. It is my great pleasure to share with you some main takeaways from the meeting.
大家好！昨天，举世瞩目的中国共产党二十届四中全会胜利闭幕。很高兴第一时间在这里同各位朋友交流感悟体会。
At the session, the Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development was adopted after deliberation. The document is a top-level strategic design of China’s development in the coming five years, sounding a clarion call for seizing the momentum and further advancing Chinese modernization.
这次会议审议通过了《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》，对中国未来五年发展作出顶层设计和战略擘画，是乘势而上、接续推进中国式现代化建设的又一次总动员、总部署。
At the session, the Central Committee established the following guiding principles for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period: upholding the Party’s overall leadership; putting the people first; pursuing high-quality development; comprehensively deepening reform; promoting interplay between an efficient market and a well-functioning government; and ensuring both development and security.
这次会议指出，“十五五”时期经济社会发展必须遵循以下原则：坚持党的全面领导，坚持人民至上，坚持高质量发展，坚持全面深化改革，坚持有效市场和有为政府相结合，坚持统筹发展和安全。
The Central Committee also set the following major objectives for the period: significant achievements in high-quality development; substantial improvements in scientific and technological self-reliance and strength; fresh breakthroughs in further deepening reform comprehensively; notable cultural and ethical progress across society; further improvements in quality of life; major new strides in advancing the Beautiful China Initiative; and further advances in strengthening the national security shield.
这次会议提出了“十五五”时期经济社会发展的主要目标：高质量发展取得显著成效，科技自立自强水平大幅提高，进一步全面深化改革取得新突破，社会文明程度明显提升，人民生活品质不断提高，美丽中国建设取得新的重大进展，国家安全屏障更加巩固。
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends,
女士们、先生们、朋友们，
The next five years will see China developing with even stronger momentum. Development is the master key to solving all problems. From 2021 to 2025, the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China’s GDP surpassed the thresholds of 110 trillion, 120 trillion, and 130 trillion yuan one after another, and is expected to reach around 140 trillion yuan this year. For more than a decade, China has contributed over 30% of global economic growth annually.
新的五年，中国发展之势将奔涌向前。发展是解决一切问题的总钥匙。“十四五”时期，中国GDP接连跨越110万亿、120万亿、130万亿元人民币三个大台阶，今年预计可以达到140万亿左右，已连续十多年对世界经济增长的贡献率超过30%。
In the next five years, we will keep our focus on the real economy, boost our strength in manufacturing, product quality, aerospace, transportation and cyberspace at a faster pace, and develop a modernized industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. We will upgrade traditional industries, foster emerging industries and industries of the future, promote high-quality, efficient development in the service sector, and develop a modernized infrastructure system.
进入“十五五”，我们将坚持把发展经济的着力点放在实体经济上，加快建设制造强国、质量强国、航天强国、交通强国、网络强国，构建以先进制造业为骨干的现代化产业体系。我们将优化提升传统产业，培育壮大新兴产业和未来产业，促进服务业优质高效发展，构建现代化基础设施体系。
In recent years, we have thoroughly implemented the strategy of expanding domestic demand, and kept unlocking consumption potential. New products, forms and models of consumption have boomed. From 2021 to 2024, domestic demand contributed 86.4% to China’s economic growth on average. In the next five years, we will stay committed to this strategy, aim to both improve living standards and increase consumer spending, coordinate investments in physical assets and human capital, vigorously boost consumption, expand effective investment, build a robust domestic market, and move faster to foster a new pattern of development.
近年来，我们深入实施扩大内需战略，不断激发和释放内需潜能，消费领域新产品、新业态、新模式层出不穷。“十四五”前四年，内需对中国经济增长的平均贡献率达86.4%。进入“十五五”，我们将坚持扩大内需这个战略基点，坚持惠民生和促消费、投资于物和投资于人紧密结合，大力提振消费，扩大有效投资，建设强大国内市场，加快构建新发展格局。
The Chinese economy enjoys solid foundations, multiple advantages, strong resilience and great potential. The conditions and underlying trends supporting its long-term growth remain unchanged. We have enough capability and confidence to address various domestic and external risks and challenges, and will continue to serve as an anchor of stability in the world and a reliable engine of global growth.
中国经济基础稳、优势多、韧性强、潜能大，长期向好的支撑条件和基本趋势没有变，有足够能力和底气应对各类内外部风险挑战，未来将继续担当全球“稳定之锚”，为世界经济发展提供可靠的动力源。
The next five years will see China innovating at a faster pace. Innovation is the primary driving force behind development. In recent years, China has made great headway in scientific and technological innovation. In many areas, we have shifted from quantity to quality, moved up to mid- and high-end technologies, and transited from a late-comer to a pace-setter. Breakthroughs have been achieved in emerging industries including AI, 5G telecommunications, new energy and biomedicine, and China’s ranking in the Global Innovation Index has risen from 34th in 2012 to 10th in 2025.
新的五年，中国创新之力将加速迸发。创新是引领发展的第一动力。近年来，中国科技创新快速崛起，很多领域加快从量变到质变、从中低端到中高端、从追赶者到领跑者转变，人工智能、5G通信、新能源、生物医药等新兴产业领域不断取得突破性进展，中国的全球创新指数排名从2012年的第34位升至2025年的第10位。
In the next five years, we will seize the historic opportunity presented by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, to boost China’s strength in education, science and technology, and human resources in a well-coordinated manner. We will enhance the overall performance of our innovation system, raise our innovation capacity across the board, strive to take a leading position in scientific and technological development, and keep fostering new quality productive forces. We will promote advances in original innovation and breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, facilitate full integration between technological and industrial innovation, pursue integrated development of education, science and technology and talent, and advance the Digital China Initiative.
“十五五”期间，我们将抓住新一轮科技革命和产业变革历史机遇，统筹教育强国、科技强国、人才强国建设，提升国家创新体系整体效能，全面增强自主创新能力，抢占科技发展制高点，不断催生新质生产力。我们将加强原始创新和关键核心技术攻关，推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合，一体推进教育科技人才发展，深入推进数字中国建设。
Neither “small yard, high fence” nor decoupling and supply chains disruption would stop China from moving forward. While striving for greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, China will also make greater contributions to technological exchanges, cooperation and progress of humanity.
“小院高墙”也好、“脱钩断链”也罢，都阻挡不了中国前进的步伐。中国未来将继续加快高水平科技自立自强，同时为促进全人类科技交流、合作与进步作出更多贡献。
The next five years will see China opening its doors even wider. Opening up is a defining feature of Chinese modernization. In recent years, China has continuously advanced high-standard opening-up. We have deepened the structural reform in foreign trade and investment, removed all market access restrictions for foreign investors in the manufacturing sector, provided zero-tariff treatment on 100% of tariff lines to all Least Developed Countries having diplomatic relations with China, and established the Hainan Free Trade Port and 22 pilot free trade zones. All these measures have been warmly welcomed worldwide.
新的五年，中国开放之门将越开越大。开放是中国式现代化的鲜明标识。近年来，中国持续推进高水平开放，深化外贸外资体制改革，制造业领域外资准入限制“清零”，给予所有同中国建交的最不发达国家100%税目产品零关税待遇，建成海南自由贸易港和22个自贸试验区，一系列开放举措受到各国欢迎。
In the next five years, we will continue to expand opening up at the institutional level, safeguard the multilateral trading system, and promote broader international economic flows. We will take the initiative to open up wider, promote the innovative development of trade, create greater space for two-way investment cooperation, and pursue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
“十五五”期间，我们将稳步扩大制度型开放，维护多边贸易体制，拓展国际循环，积极扩大自主开放，推动贸易创新发展，拓展双向投资合作空间，高质量共建“一带一路”。
When economic globalization is meeting headwinds and unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, China remains steadfast in embracing economic globalization, advancing reform and development through greater openness, championing true multilateralism, and sharing opportunities and pursuing common development with the rest of the world.
当前，经济全球化遭遇“逆流”，单边主义、保护主义愈演愈烈，但中国依然坚定拥抱经济全球化，坚持以开放促改革促发展，坚持真正的多边主义，与世界各国共享机遇、共同发展。
The next five years will see China building a stronger foundation for the wellbeing of the people. Enhancing people’s wellbeing is the fundamental aim of development. Our goal is both inspiring and simple: ultimately, it is about delivering a better life to our people. Since the start of reform and opening-up, 800 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty, accounting for over 70% of global poverty reduction in the same period. From 2021 to 2025, China’s national coverage rate of basic old-age and medical insurances has increased to more than 95%, and the average life expectancy has been raised to 79 years.
新的五年，中国民生之本将持续夯实。增进民生福祉是发展的根本目的。我们的目标很宏伟，也很朴素，归根到底就是让老百姓过上更好的日子。改革开放以来，中国8亿人摆脱贫困，占同期全球减贫人口70%以上。“十四五”期间，中国人基本养老保险、基本医疗保险参保率已超95%，人均预期寿命达79岁。
In the next five years, we will work harder to ensure and improve public wellbeing and promote common prosperity for all. This includes resolving the pressing problems that concern the people most, such as education, medical services, elderly care and childcare. We will promote high-quality and full employment, and optimize the policy environment to support business startups and employment. We will refine the income distribution system, and expand the middle-income group. We will improve the social security system, and make our people feel more satisfied, happier and more secure. We will facilitate high-quality development of the real estate sector, and promote the recovery and growth of the industry. We will also advance high-quality population development, establish a policy system to boost birth rates, and vigorously develop the silver economy. In sum, the world will see a happy China where everyone enjoys easy access to childcare, education, employment, medical services, elderly care, housing, and social assistance.
进入“十五五”，我们将加大保障和改善民生力度，扎实推进全体人民共同富裕。包括：着力解决好教育、医疗、养老、托育等人民群众急难愁盼问题；促进高质量充分就业，优化创业就业政策环境；完善收入分配制度，扩大中等收入群体规模；健全社会保障体系，不断增强人民群众获得感幸福感安全感；推动房地产高质量发展，实现房地产行业回升向好；促进人口高质量发展，构建生育支持政策体系，大力发展银发经济。世界将看到一个幼有所育、学有所教、劳有所得、病有所医、老有所养、住有所居、弱有所扶的幸福中国。
The next five years will see China broadening its path toward a greener future. Green development underlies high-quality development. Over the years, China has put in place the world’s largest renewable energy system, with renewable energy accounting for around 60% of the total installed power capacity. Today, one in every three kilowatt-hours used in China comes from green sources, and more than half of the world’s electric vehicles are running on Chinese roads.
新的五年，中国绿色之路将越走越宽。绿色发展是高质量发展的底色。多年来，我们构建起全球最大的可再生能源体系，可再生能源发电装机占比已提升至60%左右，全社会用电中每3度电就有1度是“绿电”，全球一半以上的新能源汽车行驶在中国。
From 2021 to 2024, China’s energy consumption per unit of GDP dropped by 11.6%, and its exports of wind and solar power products have reduced carbon emissions in other countries by about 4.1 billion metric tons in total, making major contributions to the global low-carbon transition and demonstrating China’s sense of duty as a responsible major country.
“十四五”的前四年，中国单位GDP能耗累计降低11.6%，出口的风电光伏产品累计为其他国家减少碳排放约41亿吨，为全球低碳转型作出重大贡献，充分体现了负责任的大国担当。
In the next five years, we will accelerate the green transition in all areas of economic and social development. Guided by our carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, we will make concerted efforts to cut carbon emissions, reduce pollution, pursue green development, and boost economic growth. We will reinforce our ecological security shields and strengthen our green development drivers. We will press ahead with the critical battle against pollution and the drive to upgrade ecosystems, move faster to develop a new energy system, work actively and prudently toward peaking carbon emissions, and accelerate the shift to eco-friendly production practices and lifestyles.
“十五五”期间，我们将加快经济社会发展全面绿色转型，以碳达峰碳中和为牵引，协同推进降碳、减污、扩绿、增长，筑牢生态安全屏障，增强绿色发展动能。我们将持续深入推进污染防治攻坚和生态系统优化，加快建设新型能源体系，积极稳妥推进和实现碳达峰，加快形成绿色生产生活方式。
By 2035, China will reduce economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% from peak levels, and basically establish a climate adaptive society. We will continue to robustly promote green and low-carbon development, and provide more positive energy to the cooperation on global climate governance.
到2035年，中国全经济范围温室气体净排放量将比峰值下降7%-10%，气候适应型社会基本建成。中国将继续大力推动绿色化、低碳化发展，为全球气候治理合作注入更多正能量。
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends,
女士们、先生们、朋友们，
Starting from the first Five-Year Plan adopted in 1953, China has formulated and implemented 14 such plans. During the process, China, once an impoverished agricultural nation where per capita steel output was barely enough to make a sickle and where manufacturing a car, airplane or tractor was beyond reach, has grown into the world’s top manufacturer and second-largest economy.
自1953年第一个五年计划起，中国接续编制和实施了14个五年计划或规划，中国也从一个“人均钢铁产量只够打一把镰刀”“一辆汽车、一架飞机、一辆拖拉机都不能造”的积贫积弱的农业国，成长为世界第一制造业大国、世界第二大经济体。
From advancing national industrialization, to ensuring a generally decent life for the people, and to completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and embarking on a new journey toward fully building a modern socialist country by 2021 when we celebrated the centenary of the Party, the Five-Year Plans are like the footprints of history, witnessing the epic journey of Chinese modernization.
纵观中国已经实施的14个五年计划或规划，从推进国家工业化到人民生活总体小康，再到2021年建党百年时全面建成小康社会、开启全面建设社会主义现代化国家新征程，五年计划或规划如同历史的刻度，见证着中国式现代化的历史进程。
Through the 14th to the 16th Five-Year Plan periods, we will strive to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035. The next five years will be critical as we reinforce the foundations and move forward on all fronts toward the goal, and will thus serve as a key link between the past and the future.
中国将用“十四五”“十五五”“十六五”3个五年规划期，到2035年基本实现社会主义现代化。“十五五”时期是基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期，在基本实现社会主义现代化进程中具有承前启后的重要地位。
The scientific formulation and consistent implementation of Five-Year Plans are an important experience of the Communist Party of China in governing the country, and also a major political strength of socialism with Chinese characteristics. As we pursue development in line with the plans, our macroeconomic governance and policies enjoy great continuity. Step by step, we carry out each blueprint to the end, and keep working hard from one generation to the next. These Five-Year Plans have not only charted the course for China’s economic and social development, but also injected strategic certainty and development stability into a turbulent world.
科学制定和接续实施五年规划，是中国共产党治国理政的一条重要经验，也是中国特色社会主义的一个重要政治优势。按照五年规划绘就的蓝图推动发展实践，中国的宏观经济治理、宏观经济政策具备很强的延续性，是名副其实的“一张蓝图绘到底、一茬接着一茬干”。五年规划不仅为中国经济社会发展指明了方向，也为动荡的世界注入战略确定性和发展稳定性。
China will always be an important opportunity for global development. In China, you can see: a huge and ever-expanding consumption market underpinned by 1.4 billion people who are getting richer, the world’s most complete industrial system, a thriving global innovation hub, vast potential brought by urbanization, industrial upgrading and green transition, and growing demands for education, elder care, medical care and other services. As China keeps expanding high-standard opening-up, all these will offer enterprises and talents from around the world readily accessible opportunities for mutual benefit.
中国将始终是世界发展的重要机遇。展现在世界面前的是：日益富裕的14亿人支撑起的、不断扩容升级的庞大消费市场，全球最完整的产业体系，快速崛起的全球创新策源地，城镇化、产业升级、绿色转型带来的巨大潜力，不断增长的教育、养老、医疗等服务需求。在中国持续扩大高水平开放背景下，这些均成为全球企业和人才可望可及、互惠互利的重大机遇。
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends,
女士们、先生们、朋友们，
The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. Only through solidarity and win-win cooperation can we navigate the rough waters together. Resorting to protectionism and unilateralism and waging tariff war and trade war will only destabilize global industrial and supply chains, and cause severe damage to global economic growth. Ultimately, no one will be a winner.
当今世界正经历百年未有之大变局，同舟共济、合作共赢才能共克时艰。大搞保护主义、单边主义，挑起关税战、贸易战，只会冲击全球产业链供应链稳定，给世界经济增长带来巨大破坏，损人害己。
China and the United States are the world’s two largest economies. Our relationship bears on not only the welfare of our two peoples, but also the future of humanity. In this chaotic world, we have a thousand reasons to get the China-U.S. relationship right, and no single one to mess it up. Through the fourth plenary session, China has again sent a signal to the world of its commitment to openness, cooperation, mutual benefit and common prosperity. We stand ready to share opportunities and pursue common development with the United States and all other countries. We hope the U.S. side will also work with us in the same direction, implement the common understandings reached between our two presidents, act in line with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, enhance communication, manage differences and expand cooperation, so as to advance the steady, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations, and also usher in a brighter future for both our peoples and humanity.
中美是当今世界前两大经济体，两国关系不仅攸关两国民众福祉，更关乎世界前途命运。面对变乱交织的世界，我们有一千条理由把中美关系搞好，没有任何借口把中美关系搞坏。二十届四中全会再次向世界传递了开放合作、互利共赢、共享繁荣的积极信号，中方愿同包括美国在内的世界各国分享机遇、共同发展。美方应同中方相向而行，落实两国元首达成的重要共识，本着相互尊重、和平共处、合作共赢的原则，加强沟通、管控分歧、拓展合作，推动中美关系稳定、健康、可持续发展，开创两国人民和人类社会美好的未来！
Thank you very much.
谢谢大家。
来源：中国驻美国大使馆
