2026-03-04
26 分钟Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is the point.
The annual sessions of the country's top legislature and top political advisory body known as the two sessions kick off in Beijing this week.
In addition to deliberating on the central government's annual work report and reviewing the draft budget and development plan for 2026,
high on this year's agenda is to examine a draft guideline which will set the course for the next five years for China's development until 2030.
What can we expect?
from this year's agenda.
How to understand China's top priorities for the next five years and how will all this affect you?
Welcome to this edition of The Point with Mi Liu Xin, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.
I'm pleased to be joined from Southwest China's Yunnan Province by David Blair,
Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization, a think tank.
From Beijing by He Ping,
Associate Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University.
University, and here in the studio by Rong Ying,
Senior Research Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies.
Gentlemen, the warmest welcome to all of you.
Let's start with a very basic foundation, the context of what we are looking at.
And I'm going to go to Mr Rong here.
Plan period is referred to as a critical stage in building on past successes to break new ground for basically realizing socialist modernization.
A mouthful.