The 15th Five-Year Plan: China’s blueprint for a brighter future, and a list of opportunities for the world—Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Xie Feng at the “China in Springtime: China’s Development Opportunities for the World” Global Dialogue U.S. Session

“十五五”规划既是中国的幸福蓝图也是世界的机遇清单——谢锋大使在“春天里的中国：中国发展 世界机遇”全球对话会美国专场上的致辞

Vice Minister Shen Haixiong,

Distinguished guests,

Dear friends,

尊敬的慎海雄副部长，

各位来宾、各位朋友：

It gives me great pleasure to attend the “China in Springtime: China’s Development Opportunities for the World” Global Dialogue as spring returns and everything comes alive. The annual two sessions which I attended personally have just concluded. The event this year took place at a key historical juncture, as we work to reinforce the foundations and push forward on all fronts toward realizing socialist modernization. It also occurred while the world comes to another crossroads, facing a critical choice between stability and turbulence.

The most important outcome of the “two sessions” was the adoption of the 15th Five-Year Plan, which maps out the indicators for the main objectives, major strategic tasks, and major projects for China’s national economic and social development in the coming five years. As a member of the CPPCC National Committee, I had the honor to attend the “two sessions” and witness how the Plan ushers in a new journey for Chinese modernization, drawing China’s blueprint for a better future and also providing a list of opportunities for the world. I would like to share with you three thoughts.

在春回大地、生机盎然的时节，很高兴参加“春天里的中国：中国发展 世界机遇”全球对话会。一年一度的中国全国两会刚刚胜利闭幕。今年的“两会”适逢中国社会主义现代化建设进入夯实基础、全面发力的关键历史节点，正值世界徘徊在变乱交织、是选择稳定还是陷入动荡的重要十字路口，其中最重要的一项成果是审议通过了“十五五”规划，对今后5年中国国民经济和社会发展的主要目标指标、重大战略任务、重大工程项目作出了部署。作为全国政协委员，我有幸亲历“两会”，深切感受到“十五五”规划开辟了中国式现代化的新征程，不仅为中国描绘了一份幸福蓝图，也给世界提供了一份机遇清单。我愿同大家分享三点看法。

First, with its bright prospects becoming more tangible, Chinese modernization will instill certainty and stability into the world. Formulating and implementing Five-Year Plans is an important experience of the Communist Party of China in its governance. We carry out each blueprint to the end, and keep working hard from one generation to the next. This is the key to China’s success, and also a roadmap leading our people to a better life. Through implementing 14 Five-Year Plans consecutively, China has transformed from an impoverished agricultural nation into a major engine of global economic growth.

第一，中国式现代化的光明前景更加可及，为世界注入确定性和稳定性。制定和实施五年规划，是中国共产党治国理政的一条重要经验，是名副其实的“一张蓝图绘到底、一茬接着一茬干”，是“中国之治”的成功密码，也是中国人民追求更美好生活的“寻宝攻略”。通过接续实施十四个五年规划，中国从一穷二白的农业国成长为世界经济增长的主引擎。

Opening a new chapter in China’s high-quality development, the 15th Five-Year Plan specifies 20 main indicators, covering areas such as economic development, innovation, public wellbeing, and green and low-carbon development. It sets out major strategic tasks, including pursuing high-quality development, strengthening the domestic economy, and advancing common prosperity for all. It also proposes a total of 109 major projects in areas including steering the development of new quality productive forces. The Plan will therefore empower our drive to pursue Chinese modernization through a key stage, and lay a solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035. In an increasingly unstable and uncertain world, China will be an oasis of certainty and an anchor of stability.

“十五五”规划掀开中国高质量发展的新篇章，细化提出经济发展、创新驱动、民生福祉、绿色低碳等方面20项发展指标，确定了推动高质量发展、做强国内大循环、推进全体人民共同富裕等重大战略任务，在引领新质生产力等方面提出109项重大工程，将助力中国式现代化走好关键一程，为2035年基本实现社会主义现代化奠定坚实基础。在全球不稳定不确定性因素上升背景下，中国将成为世界的确定性绿洲和稳定性基石。

Second, with more robust development momentum, Chinese modernization will continue to provide a main driver for global economic growth. In 2025, the Chinese economy forged ahead against all odds, with the GDP growing by 5%, demonstrating strong resilience. China has entered the top 10 of the Global Innovation Index, and has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents. At the beginning of 2026, large AI models such as DeepSeek and Seedance keep wowing people. Humanoid robots took the stage at the Spring Festival Gala with a thrilling martial arts performance. The Spring Festival holiday saw a total of 596 million domestic trips, hitting a new high. All these are vivid examples of the diverse drivers of China’s development.

第二，中国式现代化的发展动能更富活力，持续为全球经济增长提供重要引擎。2025年，中国经济顶压前行，GDP增长5%，展现强大韧性。中国全球创新指数排名提升到第10位，成为世界上首个国内有效发明专利拥有量超过500万件的国家。2026年伊始，DeepSeek、Seedance等人工智能大模型争奇斗艳，人形机器人走上春晚舞台打起“中国功夫”，5.96亿人次春节假期国内出游再创新高，成为中国发展动力多元的生动注脚。

In the coming five years, China will continue to build a robust domestic market, foster new growth drivers at a faster pace, step up efforts to achieve greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, deepen reform in key areas, accelerate the green transition across the board, develop new quality productive forces in light of local conditions, create new forms of smart economy, and nurture industries of the future such as quantum technology, embodied AI, brain-computer interfaces, and 6G technology. The Chinese economy is becoming greener and of higher quality, and the world’s factory is evolving into a bustling hub of innovation. While trading globally, we are also empowering the world, sharing both our resources and expertise to drive global development and prosperity.

今后五年，中国将持续着力建设强大国内市场，加紧培育壮大新动能，加快高水平科技自立自强，深化重点领域改革，加快推动全面绿色转型，因地制宜发展新质生产力，打造智能经济新形态，培育发展量子科技、具身智能、脑机接口、6G等未来产业。中国经济的“含绿量”和“含金量”同步提升，从“世界工厂”到“创新策源地”，从“买卖全球”到“赋能全球”，中国为世界的发展繁荣既授人以鱼也授人以渔。

Third, with openness becoming a more defining feature, Chinese modernization unlocks huge development opportunities for all. In 2025, China’s foreign trade grew despite a complex and grave external environment, with exports further diversifying, making China a major trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions across the globe. China’s negative list for foreign investment keeps shortening. The Hainan Free Trade Port has officially launched island-wide special customs operations. The China International Import Expo and the China International Supply Chain Expo attracted more overseas exhibitors and expanded exhibition areas. It has become an international consensus that, choosing China is embracing opportunities, and investing in China is investing in the future.

第三，中国式现代化的开放标识更为鲜明，与各国共享广阔发展机遇。2025年，面对复杂严峻的外部环境，中国外贸逆势而上，出口多元化成效明显，成为全球160多个国家和地区的主要贸易伙伴。中国外资准入负面清单条目持续缩减，海南自贸港正式启动全岛封关运作，进博会、链博会境外参展面积和数量持续扩大。选择中国就是选择机遇、投资中国就是投资未来，已成为国际社会广泛共识。

According to the 15th Five-Year Plan, China will continue to pursue mutually beneficial cooperation, and expand high-standard opening up. We will widen market access and open up more areas, particularly in the service sector. We will further expand opening-up trials for value-added telecom services, biotechnology, wholly foreign-owned hospitals, and other fields, and take well-ordered steps to expand opening up in the digital sector. We will boost imports to promote balanced trade, expand two-way investment cooperation, and ensure national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises. For the world, China’s opening up is not a limited-time Black Friday sale, but a constant and ever-expanding opportunity for mutual benefit.

根据“十五五”规划，中国将继续坚持合作共赢，进一步扩大高水平对外开放，以服务业为重点扩大市场准入和开放领域，进一步扩大增值电信、生物技术、外商独资医院等领域开放试点，有序扩大数字领域开放。积极扩大进口，推进贸易平衡发展。扩大双向投资合作，保障外资企业国民待遇。对全世界来说，中国的开放不是“黑色星期五”式的限时促销，而是长期稳定、不断扩大的共赢契机。

Chinese modernization is socialist modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. As President Xi Jinping pointed out, “The more effective our Party is in supervising and governing itself, the better it will be able to provide guarantees for our economic and social development.” Currently, the CPC has launched a Party-wide education campaign for establishing and practicing a correct understanding of what it means to perform well. With building the Party for the public good, boosting the people’s wellbeing, promoting sound decision-making, and taking solid steps to deliver outcomes as the overall requirements, the CPC is committed to constantly improving itself and building itself into a better party. This will provide a stronger safeguard for Chinese modernization, and boost the shared development of China and the world too.

中国式现代化是中国共产党领导的社会主义现代化。习近平主席指出，“管党治党越有效，经济社会发展的保障就越有力。”当前，中国共产党正在全党开展树立和践行正确政绩观学习教育，以立党为公、为民造福、科学决策、真抓实干为总要求，不断完善自身，始终致力于打造一个更好的中国共产党。这将为中国式现代化提供更坚强保障，也将更有力促进中国与世界的共同发展。

Dear friends,

各位朋友，

The 15th Five-Year Plan also creates broader space for mutually beneficial cooperation between China and the United States. This year is a “big year” for China-U.S. relations. We will see a series of high-level exchanges, and also respectively host the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting and the G20 Summit. How can we translate these opportunities into tangible outcomes of cooperation? This is a major task for both sides. China is always committed. We hope the U.S. side will work with us in the same direction, foster an enabling atmosphere, manage differences, and promote cooperation. Of course, China has its own principles, and will firmly protect its sovereignty, security and development interests. We believe that, under the strategic guidance of the two Presidents, as long as our two sides adhere to mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, China and the United States will be fully able to find a right way to get along in the new era, and advance the steady, sound and sustainable development of bilateral relations, for the benefit of both our countries and the whole world.

中国“十五五”规划的春风同样给中美互利合作创造了更大空间。今年是中美关系的“大年”，双方将迎来一系列高层交往，中美还将分别主办亚太经合组织领导人非正式会议和二十国集团领导人峰会。如何把上述利好转化为中美两国实实在在的合作成果，是摆在双方面前的一道重大外交课题。中方的态度是积极的，美方应与中方相向而行，营造氛围、管控分歧、促进合作。当然，中方也是讲原则的，将坚决维护自身主权安全发展利益。在两国元首战略引领下，只要双方坚持相互尊重、和平共处、合作共赢，中美就完全可以构建新时期正确相处之道，推动中美关系稳定、健康、可持续发展，造福两国、惠及世界！

Thank you very much.

谢谢大家！

来源：中国驻美国大使馆