China's development roadmap key reform charter

In capital markets, Luo proposed "comprehensive reform of investment and financing systems", encouraging long-term capital to enter the market and supporting high-quality tech companies' listings to enhance market depth and resilience.

Xiong Yuan, chief economist at Guosheng Securities, noted the key focus will be placed around four main lines — economy, reform, technology and livelihoods — during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

He said economic stability and comprehensive promotion of high-quality development should remain fundamental goals, and the reform agenda defined at the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China — over 300 concrete reform measures — will be integrated into major tasks for the 15th Five-Year Plan period as key instruments to achieve these objectives.

On the technological front, Xiong noted that science and innovation remain central, with emphasis on developing new quality productive forces and implementing the technological reforms.

People's livelihood issues — including employment, income, education and housing — will also take center stage. "Common prosperity will continue to advance," he added, citing regional examples where provinces such as Zhejiang and Heilongjiang have already positioned steadily promoting the common prosperity as a central element of their future development policies.

As China navigates intensifying global competition and structural transition at home, experts said the key focus will be placed on stabilizing short-term growth while laying the institutional groundwork for long-term modernization during the next five years.

"During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we should grasp two main lines — accelerating the development of new quality productive forces on the supply side, and building a strong consumption-driven economy on the demand side," Luo from Yuekai Securities said.

In essence, China's future development policies will highlight the country's pursuit of resilient, innovation-led growth — balancing reform and modernization with the pragmatic stability to foster long-term sustainable development, experts noted.