Chinese tech leaders attend a forum hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association on November 20, 2025, to discuss development opportunities in the 15th Five-Year Plan. Photo: Ma Tong/GT

Several Chinese companies pledged at a forum in Beijing on Wednesday to actively align with the newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) recommendations, committing to advance digital trade, quantum technology, and tech service investments, while emphasizing that China's innovation-driven development path will foster international technological and trade cooperation, injecting new momentum into global win-win development.

The comments came at a forum organized by the China Public Diplomacy Association, where technology enterprise representatives from Beijing's Chaoyang district discussed the 15th Five-Year Plan's recommendations and prospects to support China's modernization and high-quality development.

On digital trade, Yang Zetao, founder and general manager of AEOTrade (Beijing) Technology Co, told the Global Times in a sideline interview at the forum on Thursday that China, possessing world-leading global manufacturing and the most complete supply chain system, can jointly promote new digital trade cooperation with emerging markets and even Western countries through open, neutral, and distributed digital trade infrastructures.
 
Yang's firm is an internet technology company that specializes in digitizing international trade. It operates a new type of digital trade platform, and provides comprehensive digital transformation services for sellers, buyers, service providers, and governments, enabling trusted B2B2G collaboration across the entire trade chain, and facilitating the digitization and intelligent operation of their businesses, according to Yang.

Yang emphasized China's open stance in connecting global opportunities. "Our platform's non-controlling nature and open-source standards encourage inclusive participation and international cooperation, helping to address the challenges of 'decoupling' currently advocated by some countries.

The major objectives for China's 15th Five-Year Plan period prioritize "significant achievements in high-quality development; substantial improvements in scientific and technological self-reliance and strength." It also calls for promoting the innovative development of trade, creating greater space for two-way investment cooperation, and pursuing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.

On cutting-edge technology, Wen Kai, founder and CEO of QBoson, a quantum technology company, said that his company will leverage its 1,000-qubit optical quantum computer to focus on three areas during the 15th Five-Year Plan period: full-stack independent research and development, application deployment, and ecosystem building. "The goal is to establish self-sufficient quantum computing capability to secure China's lead in the global tech landscape," Wen told the Global Times.
 
At the 2025 China International Fair for Trade in Services held in September, the company's release of China's first coherent optical quantum computing cloud service supporting 1,000 dedicated qubits marked the official entry of China's dedicated quantum computing into a new stage of large-scale, practical 1,000-qubit applications, representing a critical advancement in the commercialization of quantum computing.

"These achievements are attributable both to support from the national top-level strategy and to the dual policy support of "technology + business" in Chaoyang District [of Beijing]," Wen added.

Wen noted that while quantum computing is cutting-edge, its hardware still relies heavily on semiconductor and photoelectric integration technologies. "Thus, a sustained national focus during the 15th Five-Year Plan on strengthening foundational areas like semiconductors and AI is crucial to breakthroughs supporting the entire quantum field," he said.

The Recommendations of the Central Committee of the CPC for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development call for forward-looking plans to be put in place for industries of the future, placing quantum technology at the forefront of the future industrial layout. 

In this strategic field leading a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, China is precisely at a critical stage transitioning from following and catching up to leading and breaking through, according to Wen.

Zhao Haidong, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Chaoyang District Committee of Beijing said at the forum that looking ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan, the district will firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, focus on enhancing its international development capabilities, lead the development of new productive forces with technological innovation, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.