China's Economic Plans — and Consumer Challenges
About this episode
The episode discusses China's new Five Year Plan aimed at economic growth amidst various domestic and international challenges.
China’s legislature is meeting in March to approve the nation’s new Five Year Plan, which aims to promote higher quality growth, and make China increasingly self-sufficient in new technology of all kinds, from AI to semiconductors. Yet it comes against a backdrop of uncertainty and tariff wars abroad, and high youth unemployment and a slumping property market at home. Xi Jinping has pinned his hopes on boosting domestic consumption and has pledged to promote the private economy, which he had ...
Topics covered
- China's economy
- Five Year Plan
- domestic consumption
- technology
- youth unemployment
- property market
Keywords
- China
- Five Year Plan
- Xi Jinping
- economic growth
- technology
- youth unemployment
- property market
- domestic consumption
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: China
Places: China, March
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