Reference News Network October 21 report: The BBC website on October 19 published an article titled "China Will Soon Have a New Five-Year Plan, How Have They Changed the World So Far," by Nick Marsh. The following is a translated excerpt of the article:

Senior Chinese officials have gathered in Beijing this week to discuss national development goals and vision for the remaining time of this decade.

The decisions made at this plenary session of the Central Committee will ultimately form the basis of China's next five-year plan. This blueprint will guide China's actions from 2026 to 2030.

Neil Thomas, a China political expert at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said: "The five-year plans clarify China's development goals, demonstrate the policy direction of the leadership, and guide national resources toward these preset objectives."

History tells us that these decisions often have a significant impact on the world.

The following lists how three of China's five-year plans (programs) have reshaped the global economic landscape.

1981-1985: Reform and Opening-up

It is difficult to precisely define when China began its path to becoming an economic power, but many people often set the starting point at December 18, 1978. On that day, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing.

The reform and opening-up policy became the core of the "Sixth Five-Year Plan" launched in 1981. Measures such as establishing special economic zones and attracting foreign investment changed the lives of Chinese people.

This transformation fundamentally reshaped the global economic landscape.

2011-2015: Strategic Emerging Industries

After joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, China's position as the "world factory" was consolidated. The Chinese leadership began planning the next step. They were concerned about China falling into what is known as the "middle-income trap." When an economy reaches a certain stage, it can no longer provide labor at extremely low costs and lacks the innovation capacity to produce high-end products and services, leading to this dilemma.

Therefore, China needed to find "strategic emerging industries." For China, this meant developing green technologies, such as electric vehicles and solar panels. China invested unprecedented resources into these emerging industries.

Strategic emerging industries were included in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" that started in 2011. Today, China not only holds a leading position globally in renewable energy and electric vehicles, but also almost dominates the rare earth supply chain required to produce these products.

2021-2025: High-Quality Development

The "14th Five-Year Plan" shifted the focus to "high-quality development." This means challenging America's dominance in the technology sector and pushing China to the forefront of this field.

Successful cases such as telecom giant Huawei and the AI model DeepSeek prove China's technological rise in this century.

However, Western countries have introduced or attempted to introduce bans on popular Chinese technologies, affecting millions of internet users worldwide and causing intense diplomatic disputes. Sales of advanced semiconductor products to China have now been halted by Washington.

China will focus on developing "new quality productive forces," striving to be at the forefront in areas such as chip manufacturing, computing power, and artificial intelligence, so as not to be "choked" by trade embargoes. (Translated by Yang Xuele)

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