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Editor’s Note:

2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30). The outline of the Plan sets out the following development goals for the coming five years: significant achievements in high-quality development, substantial improvements in scientific and technological self-reliance and strength, fresh breakthroughs in further deepening reform comprehensively, notable cultural and ethical progress across society, further improvements in quality of life, major new strides in advancing the Beautiful China Initiative, and further advances in strengthening the national security shield. 

The Plan’s outline also calls for steadily expanding opening-up at the institutional level, building a new system for a higher-standard open economy, promoting the high-quality development of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, promoting broader international economic flows, drawing momentum from opening-up to propel reform and development, promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, and sharing opportunities with the rest of the world and promoting common development.

As China advances the building of a new development pattern, it will have far-reaching impact on the world. Volume V of the book series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China includes part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s written speech delivered at the APEC CEO Summit held in San Francisco, the US, in 2023 – titled “China Development: New Momentum and Opportunities for the World.” In the speech, President Xi noted that “we have the confidence and ability to achieve long-term and stable growth, and through our development, we will continue to offer the world new growth momentum and opportunities.”
 
In the 22nd installment of the special series "Decoding the Book Xi Jinping: The Governance of China," focusing on the main economic and social development goals for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the Global Times, along with the People's Daily Overseas Edition, continues to invite Chinese and foreign scholars, translators of Xi’s works, practitioners with firsthand experience, and international readers to explore how the medium- and long-term development blueprint outlined in the 15th Five-Year Plan can be translated into an “opportunity list” shared with the world.

Here are the stories:

1. Readers' Reflections: 15th Five-Year Plan offers opportunities capable of reshaping global cooperation: intl business leader

2. Translators' Voices: ‘Certainty dividend’ is China’s contribution to global growth

3. Scholars' Perspectives: China’s development is an opportunity for the world: Tsinghua professor on 15th Five-Year Plan's global significance

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