{"id":41455,"date":"2025-12-12T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=41455"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:28:00","slug":"cgtn-how-does-china-set-tone-for-economic-work-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=41455","title":{"rendered":"CGTN: How does China set tone for economic work in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">BEIJING<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 12, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <i>With Chinese leaders gathered in <span class=\"xn-location\">Beijing<\/span> for the annual Central Economic Work Conference,\u00a0CGTN published an article outlining how <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> 2026 economic agenda underscores the country&#8217;s commitment to strengthening domestic demand, advancing innovation, and deepening high-level opening up, signaling renewed confidence and providing greater certainty for global development.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Chinese leaders convened in <span class=\"xn-location\">Beijing<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 10<\/span> and 11 for the annual Central Economic Work Conference, a meeting widely viewed as the compass for <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> economic trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered a keynote address reviewing economic performance in 2025, assessing emerging challenges, and outlining priorities for 2026, the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030).<\/p>\n<p>Leaders emphasized that next year&#8217;s policies will focus on &#8220;pursuing progress while ensuring stability&#8221; and &#8220;improving both quality and effectiveness,&#8221; outlining eight core tasks, including boosting domestic demand, promoting innovation, deepening reform and opening-up, advancing low-carbon development, and enhancing people&#8217;s livelihoods. The meeting sends a clear message: <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> is entering 2026 with confidence, policy clarity, and renewed momentum, providing stability and opportunity for the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Domestic demand as the engine of growth<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The meeting emphasized that increasing domestic consumption is the main economic priority for next year. Policymakers plan to take specific actions to boost spending, optimize the &#8220;two new&#8221; policies-covering large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods trade-ins-and eliminate unreasonable restrictions in the consumer sector to unlock the potential of service consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows that <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> consumer market remained resilient in 2025. In the first three quarters, final consumption expenditure contributed 53.5 percent to GDP growth, an increase of nine percentage points from the previous year. From January to October, retail sales of consumer goods exceeded <span class=\"xn-money\">40 trillion yuan<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-money\">$5.7 trillion<\/span>), a 4.3 percent year-over-year increase, outpacing last year&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with CGTN, Managing Director <span class=\"xn-person\">Kristalina Georgieva<\/span>, explaining the IMF&#8217;s recent upgrade of <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> 2025 GDP forecast, emphasized the importance of domestic consumption in supporting economic resilience. She praised <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> commitment to maintaining an open and responsible economy, pointing out that this supports the country&#8217;s focus on consumption in its new Five-Year Plan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Innovation driving new growth<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Innovation will remain a key driver of development. <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> aims to establish international innovation hubs in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Beijing<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Tianjin<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hebei<\/span> region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the <span class=\"xn-location\">Guangdong<\/span>-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Policies will focus on boosting enterprise-led innovation, strengthening intellectual property protection in emerging industries, expanding service-sector capabilities, and advancing AI development through improved governance and tech-finance integration.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2025 Global Innovation Index, <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> ranked in the top 10 for the first time and remains the highest-ranked among the 36 upper-middle-income economies. Its innovation clusters lead the world, with the <span class=\"xn-location\">Shenzhen<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Guangzhou<\/span> cluster ranking first worldwide. Bloomberg Economics projects that <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> high-tech sector, including AI, will grow from 14.3 percent of GDP in 2023 to nearly 19 percent by 2026.<\/p>\n<p><b>An open <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> provides certainty to the world<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Opening up remains one of <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> strategic advantages, and the conference reaffirmed that <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> will expand institutional and autonomous opening in the services sector, optimize the layout of free trade zones, and advance the Hainan Free Trade Port.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> foreign trade this year demonstrated resilience despite global challenges. From January to November, imports and exports totaled <span class=\"xn-money\">41.21 trillion yuan<\/span>, up 3.6 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>A recent CGTN global survey shows that 86.7 percent of respondents believe <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> continued efforts to boost domestic consumption will create significant opportunities for international companies. In the meantime, 89.1 percent say <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> ongoing expansion of opening-up will generate broader development opportunities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-12-12\/How-does-China-set-tone-for-economic-work-in-2026--1J1srzNISOY\/p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-12-12\/How-does-China-set-tone-for-economic-work-in-2026&#8211;1J1srzNISOY\/p.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">BEIJING<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 12, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <i>With Chinese leaders gathered in <span class=\"xn-location\">Beijing<\/span> for the annual Central Economic Work Conference,\u00a0CGTN published an article outlining how <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> 2026 economic agenda underscores the country&#8217;s commitment to strengthening domestic demand, advancing innovation, and deepening high-level opening up, signaling renewed confidence and providing greater certainty for global development.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Chinese leaders convened in <span class=\"xn-location\">Beijing<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 10<\/span> and 11 for the annual Central Economic Work Conference, a meeting widely viewed as the compass for <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> economic trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered a keynote address reviewing economic performance in 2025, assessing emerging challenges, and outlining priorities for 2026, the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030).<\/p>\n<p>Leaders emphasized that next year&#8217;s policies will focus on &#8220;pursuing progress while ensuring stability&#8221; and &#8220;improving both quality and effectiveness,&#8221; outlining eight core tasks, including boosting domestic demand, promoting innovation, deepening reform and opening-up, advancing low-carbon development, and enhancing people&#8217;s livelihoods. The meeting sends a clear message: <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> is entering 2026 with confidence, policy clarity, and renewed momentum, providing stability and opportunity for the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Domestic demand as the engine of growth<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The meeting emphasized that increasing domestic consumption is the main economic priority for next year. Policymakers plan to take specific actions to boost spending, optimize the &#8220;two new&#8221; policies-covering large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods trade-ins-and eliminate unreasonable restrictions in the consumer sector to unlock the potential of service consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows that <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> consumer market remained resilient in 2025. In the first three quarters, final consumption expenditure contributed 53.5 percent to GDP growth, an increase of nine percentage points from the previous year. From January to October, retail sales of consumer goods exceeded <span class=\"xn-money\">40 trillion yuan<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-money\">$5.7 trillion<\/span>), a 4.3 percent year-over-year increase, outpacing last year&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with CGTN, Managing Director <span class=\"xn-person\">Kristalina Georgieva<\/span>, explaining the IMF&#8217;s recent upgrade of <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> 2025 GDP forecast, emphasized the importance of domestic consumption in supporting economic resilience. She praised <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> commitment to maintaining an open and responsible economy, pointing out that this supports the country&#8217;s focus on consumption in its new Five-Year Plan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Innovation driving new growth<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Innovation will remain a key driver of development. <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> aims to establish international innovation hubs in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Beijing<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Tianjin<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hebei<\/span> region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the <span class=\"xn-location\">Guangdong<\/span>-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Policies will focus on boosting enterprise-led innovation, strengthening intellectual property protection in emerging industries, expanding service-sector capabilities, and advancing AI development through improved governance and tech-finance integration.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2025 Global Innovation Index, <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> ranked in the top 10 for the first time and remains the highest-ranked among the 36 upper-middle-income economies. Its innovation clusters lead the world, with the <span class=\"xn-location\">Shenzhen<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Guangzhou<\/span> cluster ranking first worldwide. Bloomberg Economics projects that <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> high-tech sector, including AI, will grow from 14.3 percent of GDP in 2023 to nearly 19 percent by 2026.<\/p>\n<p><b>An open <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> provides certainty to the world<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Opening up remains one of <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> strategic advantages, and the conference reaffirmed that <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span> will expand institutional and autonomous opening in the services sector, optimize the layout of free trade zones, and advance the Hainan Free Trade Port.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> foreign trade this year demonstrated resilience despite global challenges. From January to November, imports and exports totaled <span class=\"xn-money\">41.21 trillion yuan<\/span>, up 3.6 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>A recent CGTN global survey shows that 86.7 percent of respondents believe <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> continued efforts to boost domestic consumption will create significant opportunities for international companies. In the meantime, 89.1 percent say <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> ongoing expansion of opening-up will generate broader development opportunities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-12-12\/How-does-China-set-tone-for-economic-work-in-2026--1J1srzNISOY\/p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-12-12\/How-does-China-set-tone-for-economic-work-in-2026&#8211;1J1srzNISOY\/p.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}