Good start for new five-year plan stressed

President Xi Jinping called on Tuesday for solid efforts to secure a good start for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), highlighting the need to maintain strategic focus to enhance the certainty and sustainability of the country's development.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at the opening of a study session at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) in Beijing for principal officials at the provincial and ministerial levels.

The study session is designed to study and implement the guiding principles of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which adopted the recommendations for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan, a blueprint for China's economic and social development in the next five years.

Xi pointed out that formulating and implementing five-year plans is an important experience of the Party in governing the country and a significant political advantage of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

He urged firming up confidence in the system and continuously developing such an advantage by aligning it with new circumstances.

Noting that the fourth plenary session made strategic deployments for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, he emphasized the need for the guiding principles of the session to be fully, deeply and accurately understood.