--- source: Government of China (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) url: https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202603/13/content_WS69b4b130c6d00ca5f9a09dfc.html document_type: docx (from official government source) date_retrieved: 2026-03-17 period: March 5-12, 2026 parent_publication: Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress Work Report indicators_covered: [Government Policy, Economic Targets, Development Strategy, National Priorities] --- # Full Text: Report on the Work of the Government ## Report Details - **Delivered by:** Premier Li Qiang - **Date Delivered:** March 5, 2026 - **Approved:** March 12, 2026 - **Session:** Fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China --- ## Structure The government work report comprises four major parts: **I. A Review of Our Work in 2025** **II. Main Objectives and Major Tasks for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period** **III. Overall Requirements and Policy Orientations for Economic and Social Development in 2026** **IV. Major Tasks for 2026** --- ## Key Development Targets for 2026 The report proposes the following main development targets for 2026: - **GDP growth:** 4.5-5 percent, while striving for better results in practice - **Surveyed urban unemployment rate:** Around 5.5 percent - **New urban jobs:** Over 12 million - **CPI increase:** Around 2 percent - **Personal income growth:** In step with economic growth - **Balance of payments:** Basic equilibrium - **Grain output:** Around 700 million metric tons - **Carbon dioxide emissions reduction per unit of GDP:** Reduction of around 3.8 percent --- ## Major Areas of Focus ### 1. Accelerating Innovation-Driven Development We will implement the national innovation strategy and advance the construction of science and technology innovation systems. Key initiatives include: - Strengthening core competitiveness in basic research - Promoting breakthrough innovation in frontier and strategic emerging industries - Deepening reform of the scientific and technological system - Building capacity for self-reliance in science and technology ### 2. Advancing Industrial Transformation and Upgrading The government will: - Accelerate the development of new quality productive forces - Support the development of advanced manufacturing industries - Promote digital economy, platform economy, and green economy development - Strengthen supply chain stability and resilience - Establish innovation platforms and incubation centers for emerging industries ### 3. Strengthening Regional Economic Coordination The report emphasizes ensuring more coordinated regional development through: - Optimizing functional zoning and regional economic layout - Supporting major provincial economies in assuming greater responsibility - Advancing development of major strategic initiatives including: - Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration - Yangtze River Delta regional integration - Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development - Xiong'an New Area development - Yangtze Economic Belt development - Yellow River basin ecological conservation - Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone development ### 4. Ensuring and Improving People's Wellbeing **Employment:** The people's wellbeing must always come first. The government will promote high-quality full employment through: - Implementing the initiative for creating more stable, better-quality job opportunities - Supporting labor-intensive sectors and enterprises - Nurturing new occupations serving emerging industries - Drawing up policies to facilitate employment for college graduates and young people - Increasing support for stabilizing employment among rural migrant workers **Education:** Enhanced education equity and quality will be achieved by: - Upgrading basic education - Developing balanced, quality compulsory education and inclusive quality preschool education - Increasing the supply of regular senior secondary school places - Expanding enrollment in quality undergraduate programs - Enhancing vocational school training capacity - Improving special needs education and specialized education **Healthcare:** Strengthened basic medical and health services through: - Refining frameworks of policies and institutions for health promotion - Improving mechanisms for coordinated development of medical services, insurance, and pharmaceuticals - Deepening public hospital reforms to serve the public interest - Providing greater operational support for county, district, and community-level medical institutions - Strengthening under-resourced medical specialties - Enhancing emergency medicine and emergency response capabilities - Government subsidies for basic medical insurance for rural residents increased by 24 yuan per person - Continuing promotion of traditional Chinese medicine preservation and development **Social Security and Services:** - Minimum basic old-age benefits for rural and non-working urban residents raised by 20 yuan per month - Broadening coverage of unemployment insurance and workers' compensation schemes - Implementing proactive national strategy in response to population aging - Increasing supply of public-interest elderly care services - Refining elderly care service networks in urban communities - Improving elderly care services in rural areas - Fostering positive attitudes toward marriage and childbearing - Boosting housing support for first-time married couples and those with their first child - Refining maternity insurance and parental leave systems - Expanding subsidized childcare services and integrated nursery/childcare services - Strengthening disability prevention and rehabilitation services - Ensuring children in need receive adequate care and services - Safeguarding rights and interests of women and children **Cultural Services:** - Initiatives to boost quality and efficiency of public cultural services - Ensuring public libraries, museums, cultural centers, and science/technology centers serve the public better - Improving services system for fostering reading culture - Supporting development of physical bookstores - Launching extensive public cultural activities - Promoting new forms of literature and art for the general public - Continuing preservation and development of fine traditional Chinese culture - Completing fourth national survey of cultural artifacts - Protecting and preserving cultural heritage - Boosting high-quality development of cultural tourism - Encouraging expansion of more cultural enterprises and works globally - Strengthening mainstream media's international communication capacity - Making good preparations for China's participation in 2026 Asian Games - Accelerating restructuring of youth football training system - Developing sports event economy and ice/snow economy - Building sports venues and facilities close to people's homes ### 5. Accelerating Green Transition Across the Board **Environmental Protection:** - Fresh headway in keeping skies blue, waters clear, and lands clean - Formulating action plan for continuous air quality improvement - Tackling black, malodorous water bodies in county seats and rural areas - Addressing pollution from non-point sources - Adopting more robust measures to control risks from polluted land plots - Treating new pollutants and comprehensively managing solid waste **Ecological Conservation:** - Refining mechanisms for diversifying ecological compensation forms - Broadening channels for realizing market value of ecosystem goods and services - Enhancing biodiversity protection - Effectively enforcing 10-year fishing ban on Yangtze River - Taking holistic and systematic approach to conservation and improvement of mountain, water, forest, farmland, grassland, and desert ecosystems - Integrating and optimizing protected areas - Continuing development of national parks - Making advances in national shelterbelt program in northwest, north, and northeast China **Green and Low-Carbon Economy:** - Improving policies for promoting green and low-carbon development - Launching initiatives for upgrading quality, lowering costs, and reducing carbon emissions in key industries - Driving development of zero-carbon industrial parks and factories - Setting up national fund for low-carbon transition - Fostering new growth drivers such as hydrogen power and green fuels - Exercising tight regulation over energy-intensive and high-emission projects - Accelerating phase-out of outdated production capacity - Supporting innovation and application of green and low-carbon technologies - Improving systems for total resource consumption control and comprehensive resource conservation - Stepping up recycling of recyclable materials **Carbon Emission Reduction:** - Implementing system of controlling both total amount and intensity of carbon emissions - Refining systems for carbon emissions statistics, accounting, and carbon footprint management - Expanding coverage of China Carbon Emission Trade Exchange - Formulating plan for strengthening China's energy sector - Building new electric power system - Accelerating smart grid construction - Developing new types of energy storage - Promoting extensive use of green electricity - Promoting clean and efficient use of fossil fuels ### 6. Strengthening Risk Prevention and Mitigation **Real Estate Market Stabilization:** - Introducing city-specific policies to control new real estate projects - Reducing housing inventory - Improving housing supply - Exploring avenues for utilizing commodity housing stock - Encouraging stock to be purchased and used mainly as government-subsidized housing - Deepening housing provident fund system reform - Improving supply of government-subsidized housing - Accelerating renovation of old and dilapidated housing units - Promoting development of quality homes (safe, comfortable, eco-friendly, smart) - Enhancing housing quality and property services - Leveraging white list to ensure timely housing delivery and prevent debt default risks - Developing foundational institutions and supportive policies for new real estate development model **Local Government Debt Defusal:** - Supporting local governments in leveraging policies to defuse hidden debt risks at faster pace - Taking stringent measures to prevent fraudulent debt resolution - Enforcing prohibition on incurring new hidden debts as ironclad rule - Increasing financial and fiscal support - Optimizing debt restructuring and replacement methods - Adopting multiple measures to defuse operational debt risks in local government financing platforms - Taking systematic steps to reform and transform platforms on per-category basis - Refining debt monitoring and evaluation indicators - Establishing long-term mechanisms for unified government debt management **Financial Risk Prevention:** - Leveraging full range of resources to address risks in small and medium local financial institutions - Taking market- and law-based measures to deal with high-risk institutions systematically - Ramping up capital replenishment through various channels - Prudently handling non-performing assets of financial institutions - Enhancing coordination in financial regulation - Guarding against and cracking down on illegal financial activities - Enhancing monitoring and early warning to ensure prompt response to financial risks - Better preventing and controlling risks at source **National Security and Social Stability:** - Fully applying holistic approach to national security - Improving national security system - Building national security capacity in key domains - Strengthening public safety governance - Making critical infrastructure intrinsically safer - Bolstering local communities' capacity for workplace safety and disaster prevention/mitigation - Accelerating development of modern water network - Improving support system for catastrophe insurance - Tightening oversight over food, drug, industrial product, and special equipment safety - Improving social governance system - Strengthening ranks of social workers - Guiding sound development of social organizations - Supporting humanitarian assistance, volunteer services, and public welfare programs - Promoting reform of trade associations and chambers of commerce - Continuing to apply and develop Fengqiao model in new era - Advancing well-regulated development of integrated governance centers - Improving community governance and preventing/resolving conflicts through diverse means - Strengthening public psychological counseling services - Enhancing law-based handling of public complaints and proposals - Developing integrated system and capacity for maintaining law and order - Building robust mechanisms for combating and rooting out organized crime - Preventing and cracking down on telecom/online fraud and drug-related crime ### 7. Government Performance and Integrity **Administrative Excellence:** - Intensifying efforts to build law-based government - Advancing law-based government administration - Performing duties in strict accordance with Constitution and law - Readily submitting to oversight of people's congresses and their standing committees - Accepting democratic oversight from CPPCC - Placing government under public oversight and oversight through public opinion - Raising quality and effectiveness of audit-based oversight - Strengthening accounting oversight and statistics-based oversight - Staying committed to sound, democratic, and law-based decision-making - Taking solid steps to make government affairs more transparent - Improving communication and explanation of policies to public - Refining institutions and mechanisms for administrative reconsideration - Improving long-term mechanisms for regulating enterprise-related administrative law enforcement - Promoting one-stop government services - Speeding up development of digital government - Enhancing administrative performance - Prioritizing policy implementation - Taking solid steps to solve problems - Improving ability to fully and effectively implement Party Central Committee decisions **Anti-Corruption Efforts:** - Resolutely shouldering political responsibility for ensuring full and rigorous Party self-governance - Consolidating gains from study campaign implementing central Party leadership's eight-point decision on improving work conduct - Tightening regulation and oversight over allocation and exercise of power - Making thorough efforts to improve Party conduct, build integrity, and combat corruption - Intensifying efforts to address misconduct and corruption directly affecting public - Launching study campaign for officials to understand what it means to perform well - Supporting trade unions, Communist Youth League organizations, women's federations, and other people's organizations - Deepening reform of public institutions ### 8. Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Relations **Hong Kong and Macao:** - Resolutely implementing One Country, Two Systems policy - Ensuring people of Hong Kong administer Hong Kong with high degree of autonomy - Ensuring people of Macao administer Macao with high degree of autonomy - Seeing that both special administrative regions are administered by patriots - Ensuring more effective law-based governance in both regions - Promoting their economic and social development - Supporting better integration into country's overall development - Further leveraging their unique strengths and important roles - Promoting their long-term prosperity and stability **Taiwan:** - Fully implementing Party's overall policy for new era on resolving Taiwan question - Staying committed to one-China principle and 1992 Consensus - Resolutely fighting against separatist forces aimed at Taiwan independence - Opposing external interference - Promoting peaceful development of cross-Strait relations - Advancing cause of national reunification - Promoting exchanges, cooperation, and integrated development across Taiwan Strait - Implementing policies for equal treatment of Taiwan compatriots - Improving wellbeing of Chinese people on both sides --- ## Foreign Policy and International Relations China stands ready to: - Work with all members of international community to promote equal and orderly multipolar world - Promote universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization - Pursue Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, Global Civilization Initiative, and Global Governance Initiative - Actively participate in reform and development of global governance system - Make international order more just and equitable - Build community with shared future for humanity - Create bright future of peace and development for world --- ## National Defense - Continuing to apply Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Military - Implementing military strategy for new era - Staying committed to Party's absolute leadership over people's armed forces - Implementing system of ultimate responsibility resting with chairman of Central Military Commission - Ensuring political loyalty in military - Improving military political conduct - Making major strides toward centenary goals of People's Liberation Army - Making solid gains in military training and combat readiness - Speeding up development of advanced combat capabilities - Formulating plan for strengthening military during 15th Five-Year Plan period - Carrying out major defense-related projects - Launching projects to modernize military theory - Making coordinated advances in military-civilian reforms - Improving framework and layout of defense-related science, technology, and industry - Consolidating and enhancing integration of national strategies and strategic capabilities - Moving faster to develop national defense mobilization capabilities - Raising public awareness of national defense - Strengthening mutual support between civilian and military sectors - Consolidating unity between military and government and between military and people --- ## Closing The blueprint has been drawn, and the time for action has come. Let all rally around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and follow the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Let all forge ahead with one heart and one mind to accomplish the objectives and tasks for this year's economic and social development and get off to a good start in implementing the 15th Five-Year Plan. Let all strive to build a great country and advance national rejuvenation on all fronts through Chinese modernization.