Chinese leader Xi Jinping outlines 5-year plan at closed-door Communist
Party meeting
[October 20, 2025]
By KEN MORITSUGU
BEIJING
(AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the
opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve
a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five
years. |

A man walks by Chinese security personnel guarding the entrance to the
Jingxi Hotel where the Communist Party's Central Committee is holding
its fourth plenum, in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy
Wong) |
A short dispatch from the official Xinhua News Agency said Xi
“expounded on the Party leadership’s draft proposals” for the
next five-year plan for national economic and social
development, which will cover 2026-2030. It did not provide any
details.
The latest plan comes at a time of growing challenges and
uncertainty for China, including a persistently sluggish
economy, foreign restrictions on its access to the latest
technologies and high tariffs imposed on its exports to the
United States.
A Xinhua editorial said that the plan should focus on
“high-quality” development and technological innovation, while
also ensuring national security is protected and the benefits of
economic growth are spread fairly and more widely.
“There will be hardships and obstacles on our way forward, and
we may encounter major tests,” the editorial said in discussing
economic and national security goals. “We must be prepared to
deal with a series of new risks and challenges.”
Analysts and investors are watching the meeting to look for
clues about how the plan will balance economic and security
interests, and to what extent the plan will call for structural
changes to boost consumer spending and manage an aging society.
This week's four-day meeting brings together about 200 voting
members and 170 alternate members of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party.
The body will approve the draft five-year plan, though full
details likely won't be released until it is formally approved
at the legislature's next annual meeting, expected in March.
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