Brussels Breakfast Briefing: The 15th Five-Year Plan: How the party is trying to stabilize domestic growth and welfare to strengthen China for geoeconomic competition

On Wednesday, November 12, MERICS will hold a closed-door breakfast briefing providing key insights on the Fourth Plenary Session of the CCP’s Central Committee and the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan.

The one-hour event will bring together a group of selected European officials, policymakers and experts, as well as representatives of selected foreign missions and organizations, for an exclusive briefing by MERICS analysts followed by a confidential discussion. 

The detailed proposals for the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan released after the Fourth Plenary Session of the CCP’s Central Committee in late October provide important indicators about China’s political, economic and social trajectory in the coming years. The party conclave gathered against the backdrop of heightened trade frictions. Despite a temporary ceasefire, China’s leadership is formulating its policy plans with the goal to strengthen China for the geoeconomic competition ahead.

In this briefing, MERICS experts will analyze the central signals and outcomes of the Fourth Plenum, including the party’s approach to addressing urgent domestic issues around private sector growth, employment and social development, adjustments to China’s industrial and innovation policy and the party’s evolving approach to national and economic security.

Speakers:

Katja Drinhausen, Head of Program "Politics and Society", MERICS  
Daria Impiombato, Senior Analyst, MERICS
Alexander Davey, Analyst, MERICS