China’s Next Five-Year Plan Could Redefine Global Power
October 20, 2025
9:33 am
Beijing is preparing its next chapter. As the Chinese Communist Party’s top brass gathers this week, they’re not merely setting domestic targets — they’re charting how the world’s second-largest economy will reshape the global order once again.
What emerges from these closed-door sessions will guide China’s next Five-Year Plan, the economic playbook stretching from 2026 to 2030. For decades, these plans have acted as the country’s compass — quietly transforming not only China’s destiny, but the world’s balance of power.
The tradition began in 1953, modeled after Soviet central planning. But it was Deng Xiaoping’s 1980s blueprint of “reform and …
