China is on track to meet its growth target of around 5% this year and will roll out more proactive policies in 2026, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, amplifying promises for more stimulus to power economic growth.
China’s gross domestic product is expected to have reached 140 trillion yuan ($20 trillion) this year, with defence and science and technology in particular having reached new levels, Xi said in a New Year’s address televised by state broadcaster CCTV.
The country’s GDP growth rate is expected to be around 5% after an “extraordinary” year, Xi told a New Year’s tea party of top Chinese Communist Party officials on the same day, CCTV reported.
That means the economy will have hit this year’s growth target set by policymakers, buoyed partly by goods exports, which proved resilient despite a heated trade war with the United States.
Xi did not unveil any specific policies in his New Year’s messages, but vowed to improve the quality of the economy while maintaining “reasonable growth”, and reiterated his “common prosperity” pledge.
