In the 12th article of the "Scholars' Perspectives" column, Global Times talked to Justin Yifu Lin (Lin), dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. Lin was former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank.
From the 14th Five-Year Plan to the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan, China has demonstrated remarkable strategic resolve and policy continuity. The unique strategy of "leveraging local conditions to develop new quality productive forces" has pioneered a pragmatic approach, maximizing endogenous driving forces, deeply integrating cutting-edge science and technology with local characteristics, and forming a solid and sustainable growth engine.
In the 13th installment of the "Practitioners' Insights" series, Global Times reporters visited the headquarters of Unitree Robotics in Hangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province. The company's sole elevator, which is designed to serve robots, underscores Unitree's profound dedication to its products.
In the 14th article of the "Readers' Reflections" column, Global Times (GT) reporter Ma Jingjing talked to John Quelch (Quelch), the Executive Vice Chancellor, American President and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University, about his understanding of leveraging local conditions to develop new quality productive forces and the opportunities and global contributions brought about by China's rapid development of new quality productive forces.
I've said that when historians of the future write the chronicles of our times, a highlight is sure to be China's remarkable 40 years of reform and opening-up, and bringing living standards in rural areas up to near living standards in urban areas is essential: Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Unlike economic models focusing purely on GDP growth, China's five-year plan integrates social welfare, poverty alleviation, green energy and technological self-reliance.
Expanding institutional opening-up is a key task of the Chinese government's economic work in 2025. This deployment is not only a new trend of high-quality economic development, but also a major step to respond to the turbulence in international relations, unilateral sanctions and trade wars imposed by Western countries.
In the past decade or so, China's contribution to global growth was close to 30 percent. The size of China's economy and its growth rate jointly make it the largest contributor.
As chairman of a world-leading solar power enterprise and also a deputy to China's top legislature, Gao Jifan is tasked with offering strategic insights for national policymakers on the industry's high-quality development.
Half a month before the annual sessions of China's top legislature and political advisory body, a high-level symposium on private enterprises was convened, sending a signal of strong support for private businesses.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Monday urged efforts to promote the healthy and high-quality development of the country's private sector, the Xinhua News Agency reported.