14th Five-Year Plan a roadmap that leads beyond the year 2025
A draft of the top-level blueprint for the country's economic and social development will be assessed during the fifth plenary session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee, which is being held in Beijing from Monday to Thursday.
The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) will chart the course of the country's development over the next five years and generate far-reaching effects well beyond its final year.
China implemented its first five-year development plan in 1953 and it is fair to say that China's development has been charted by these plans. No matter how divergent policymakers might be on economic and social development when it comes to specific issues, once the five-year plan is settled, they will act on it accordingly and faithfully with targeted measures to perform the tasks outlined in the plan and a strict supervision mechanism to ensure they are achieved.