Recently, China’s two national sessions, the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress of China (NPC), successfully concluded in Beijing.
“Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) for National Economic and Social Development” was approved by the NPC during the session, providing a carefully-designed roadmap for China’s next five-year economic and social development.
China will actively advance the Chinese-style modernisation by further consolidating foundational sectors and fully uncovering the potential of all fields in the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Meeting all the major targets of the 14th Five-Year Plan with GDP exceeding 140 trillion yuan, China is moving forward with new tasks set in the 15th Five-Year Plan, which are represented by 20 main indicators, important strategic tasks in 16 key sectors, and 109 major projects in various fields.
China will take coordinated efforts to promote high-quality development, achieve greater sci-tech self-reliance and strength, and comprehensively deepen reforms in various fields. China is dedicated to making notable across-society cultural and ethical progress, elevating people’s quality of life, further implementing the Beautiful China Initiative, and strengthening the overall national security.
China will work hard to achieve higher-quality economic growth with appropriate output increase, substantially promote people’s all-rounded development and make solid progress in achieving common prosperity for all. Fulfilment of these tasks will make China well prepared for realising its goal of stepping into the ranks of moderately developed countries in terms of GDP per capita, and basically achieving socialist modernisation by 2035.
China will resolutely practice high-level opening up by continuously providing stability and progress to its own people and the rest of the world in the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
A country’s greatness lies in serving the greater good other than its own. China’s annual economic growth averaged 5.4% in the past five years, contributing around 30% to global economic growth. In the coming five years, China will maintain resilient development with the underlying economic structure further strengthened and growth momentum well maintained. As the world’s largest potential consumer market and weighty emerging economy, China is committed to providing continued stability and growth drive to global economy.
China will continue to expand institutional opening-up, provide expanded market access covering a wide range of fields, particularly the service sectors, and upgrade trade and investment cooperation with better delivery. China is happy to make joint growth with the rest of the world by sharing development opportunities and opening its super-large market.
China will further substantialise and enrich the vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity by making continued contributions to the global community in the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
It is war, poverty, hunger, and injustice, rather than people of a different nation or race, that are enemies to mankind. We humans must unite and assist one another to defeat these real enemies. In a world marked by increasing uncertainties and volatile situations, building a community with a shared future for humanity, which has proved to be the only way out for mankind’s sustainable development, is gaining growing support and involvement.
China is a country of commitments, which will continue to work with the international community to shape an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation. China is willing to join hands with partner countries to further implement the global development, security, civilization and governance initiatives. China is committed to pushing forward the global modernisation featured by peaceful development, win-win cooperation and common prosperity.
China will continue its joint efforts with the international community to oppose hegemony and bullying, and strive to form a fairer and more equitable international order. 2026 marks the beginning year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and the 13th Malaysia Plan, a crucial time for both countries to transition to the next phase of modernisation.
Given this opportune time, China is willing to continue strengthening alignment of development strategies and further substantiate the outcomes delivered by President Xi Jinping’s state visit with Malaysia, under the guidance of the important consensus reached by leaders of both countries. China will work with Malaysia to keep carrying forward the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), the “Two Countries, Twin Parks” and other high-quality BRI projects, uncover the complementary advantages and cooperation potential in the emerging cutting-edge fields of digital economy, green economy, etc., and foster new regional hubs for innovation-led growth and high-tech development.
Together, China and Malaysia will advance building the high-level strategic China-Malaysia community with a shared future at a faster pace and with more delivery of tangible benefits. The journey is long, and the future is bright. Standing at a new starting point, China and Malaysia will progress in bigger strides and co-write a more glorious chapter of another “Golden 50 Years” of friendly ties.
As good neighbors, friends and partners, China and Malaysia have always been, and will always be, each other’s strong support and assistance in times of need and difficulty. Join hands, China and Malaysia will shape a brighter future for both and a wider region beyond.
Ouyang Yujing is ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of China to Malaysia. The views expressed here are the writer’s own.
