
Date: April 23, 2025
Event: Supported Webinar
In the second session of the 2025 webinar series “Staying in Dialogue with China”, Markus Herrmann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, China Macro Group (CMG) will be talking to Zhu Guangyao. Vice Chairman of CCIEE, and former Vice Minister of Finance, about China’s next and upcoming 15th Five-year Plan (2026-2030).
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About the Webinar Series:
This webinar is part of the webinar series 'Staying in Dialogue with China'. The series will bring you six webinars with distinguished China-based experts, concentrated between February and December 2025.
'Staying in dialogue with China' is organized and hosted by China Macro Group (CMG), with Caixin Global as Anchor Partner, in cooperation with China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Chinaforum Bayern, Swissmem, Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF), SwissCham China, the Stein am Rhein Symposium (stars), Sweden-China Trade Council (SCTC), Norwegian Business Association China (NBA China), Danish Chamber of Commerce in China (DCCC), and EuroCham Singapore.
About the Webinar:
Against the backdrop of the 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030) being drafted these months, this webinar wants to take stock of the implementations of the 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025) to date, which was drafted in the first year of the Covid pandemic in 2020, endorsed by the NPC in 2021 and is now in its fifth and last year of execution.
This time period eventually witnessed, among many more, China’s real estate crisis, the 20th Party Congress, ASEAN becoming China’s largest trading partner, an aggravated level of insufficient demand and overcapacity in China’s economy, the end of Covid-related restrictions and the re-opening of its borders, Russia launching its war against Ukraine, the peaking of China’s population, new market governance dynamics shifting from tensions to reconciliation with China’s private sector, two US presidents, and finally the “Deep Seek” moment.
CMG wants to discuss the following key topics with their esteemed guest:
The strategic role and impact of the Dual Circulation policy concept
Highlight key challenges and key policymaking actions under the 14th Five-Year-Plan
Reform announcements at the “Third Plenum” (July 2024) and their implementation
China’s evolving external environment, incl. Trump 2.0 and US-China relations
China’s technological momentum, dependencies and ambitions
State and outlook of China’s post-Covid economic recovery
Changing premises and external factors for the 15th Five-Year-Plan
How are “supply” vs “demand” side each seen strategically by the Chinese leadership?
Are there structural levers or quick-wins to unleash more domestic demand to urgently and effectively revitalize the economy?
What is the role of China’s social security system to help unleash the domestic demand?
What is the link between domestic demand boost and “common prosperity”?
Join this wide-ranging discussion to get a strategic snapshot from a senior Chinese policymaker’s unique vantage point of where China’s development and its economy stand, as well as the key challenges and opportunities as seen by Beijing.