{"id":5200,"date":"2026-03-04T23:49:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:51:01","slug":"what-to-watch-at-chinas-2026-two-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/english\/5200\/","title":{"rendered":"What to watch at China&#8217;s &#8216;2026 two sessions&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5200-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/compressO-204da0e9-4e37-439c-b29a-d7368558a6d3.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/compressO-204da0e9-4e37-439c-b29a-d7368558a6d3.mp4\">https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/compressO-204da0e9-4e37-439c-b29a-d7368558a6d3.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The 2026 two sessions (NPC and CPPCC) are set to open soon. Here is a selection of highlights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. 15th Five-Year Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the world&#8217;s second-largest economy embarks on the inaugural year of its 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), the two sessions will serve both as a review of past achievements, and as a strategic compass guiding the nation&#8217;s future development. Lawmakers will examine a draft outline of the new five-year plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Growth target<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s 2026 GDP growth target will align with the country&#8217;s high-quality development imperative, which centers on fostering new quality productive forces, boosting consumption, upgrading the manufacturing sector, and advancing the green and low-carbon development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. New legislation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chinese lawmakers are set to deliberate on a draft environmental code, a draft law on promoting ethnic unity and progress, and a draft law on national development planning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Industries of the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and nuclear fusion power, brain-computer interfaces, embodied AI and 6G mobile communications, have been highlighted as new growth drivers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>This article was originally published by Ecns.cn on 4 March 2026 and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 two sessions (NPC and CPPCC) are set to open soon. Here is a selection of highlights. 1. 15th Five-Year Plan As the world&#8217;s second-largest economy embarks on the inaugural year of its 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), the two sessions will serve both as a review of past achievements, and as a strategic compass guiding the nation&#8217;s future development. Lawmakers will examine a draft outline of the new five-year plan. 2. Growth target China&#8217;s 2026 GDP growth target will align with the country&#8217;s high-quality development imperative, which centers on fostering new quality productive forces, boosting consumption, upgrading the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamedia.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}