What to know about China's economic ambitions and its Five-Year Plan

In early March, Beijing released its fifteenth Five-Year Plan, detailing the Party leadership's economic and technological ambitions for the years ahead. Jon Czin sits down with China Center colleague Kyle Chan and Andrew Polk of Trivium China to discuss Beijing's push to move up the value chain — from low-end manufacturing toward high-tech industries like AI, robotics, and semiconductors. The two experts offer their analysis of what the plan reveals about where China's leaders want its economy to go, how it plans to get there, and how Western countries are reacting to its increasing economic global influence.

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