Blueprint set to chart course of development

Key Party meeting to review proposals for medium－and long-term prospects

The Communist Party of China will set the tone for the country's socioeconomic development in the next five years and beyond at this week's key Party meeting, amid economic slowdown as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and growing tensions with the United States.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, which opens on Monday, will review and adopt proposals for the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for Economic and Social Development and targets for 2035－a top-level policy blueprint for China's mid－and long-term development.

President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, has paid a great deal of attention to the drafting work. In the past months, he made two instructions on formulating the blueprint, and held a series of meetings and symposiums to obtain opinions and suggestions from economists, social experts, entrepreneurs, scientists, professionals outside the Party and grassroots representatives in order to make the plan more relevant to China's reality.