Mar 25, 20226 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkOne year into the 14th FYP: Policy challenges on many fronts amid a volatile contextRecent developments and policies may compound to the risk that the current FYP won’t be able to progress according to plan.
Mar 25, 20221 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkThe 14th FYP (2021-2025)To ensure implementation, ministries and regions devise their detailed FYPs based on the central- and thus more high-level national FYP.
Mar 25, 20222 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkChina’s socialist market economy: market governance and SOE reforms so far in the focusChina’s socialist market economy reform wants to “increase efficiency” and “fairness of the market” towards "high-quality development".
Mar 25, 20223 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkCommon Prosperity sidelined by short-term economic priorities?Recent regulatory action and authoritative statements suggest that Common Prosperity is being de-prioritized in light of economic headwinds.
Mar 25, 20223 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkFor security reasons, China pushes for an “autonomous and reliable” supply chain located in ChinaXi advocated that China should build a “new supply chain mode” for the post-pandemic recovery, which should be “autonomous and reliable.
Mar 25, 20223 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkOverall implementation of health and social policies to on track, but challenges remainWith a variety of new health and social policies under the 14th FYP, China is trying to tackle the country’s several long-term challenges.
Mar 2, 20223 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkStability will govern the agenda for 2022 as Chinese legislators conveneAs China’s legislators are set to convene in Beijing in early March, stability becomes the governing theme.
Mar 2, 20222 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkBeijing wants to accelerate industrial upgrading with its first-ever 14th FYP on medical devicesIn December 2021, the MIIT along with nine other ministries jointly released the 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP).
Mar 2, 20224 min readPractitioners’ Pulse checkChina facing a trilemma amid the Russia-Ukraine warPutin’s invasion in Ukraine seems to put Beijing in a strategic bind.