Translation Category: Economics
This Xi Jinping speech from the December 2021 Central Economic Work Conference, published in the May 2022 edition of China’s leading theoretical journal Qiushi, discusses major issues in China’s future development path and signals a renewed emphasis on common prosperity and stricter regulation of capital.
Known as “Document No. 1,” the first official policy document issued in the new year traditionally focuses on rural issues. This year, the document stresses food security and rural development.
One of China’s senior-most industry and technology regulators summarizes China’s progress in technological advancement since the 18th Party Congress in 2012.
Readout from meeting of Party members at China’s main owner and regulator of state-owned enterprises.
The former chief economist of the Shanghai Stock Exchange analyses America’s technology ecosystem to see what lessons it might offer for China.
An assessment of China’s high tech manufacturing capabilities by a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
An excerpt from a speech given by a noted Chinese engineer highlighting several deficiencies in China’s manufacturing and R&D capacity.
This is a lengthy analysis from news outlet Xinhua discusses the policies and strategies Beijing is putting in place to transform China into a global high-tech “superpower” by 2035. The author argues that China’s science and technology innovation model has been in “catch-up mode” for some time, seeking to imitate innovations from developed countries, which has led to an underinvestment in basic research and a “lack of originality.” Top-down support for the development of specific key technologies and fields is needed, the author suggests, as is organizational and regulatory change to develop an ecosystem supportive of greater innovation.
Readout from the December convening of the Central Economic Work Conference, one of the most important annual venues for laying out the coming year’s economic policies and priorities.
Analysis of China’s increasingly complicated international strategic environment by a senior official at the Central Party School, the Communist Party’s premier cadre training facility.