What Happened
Beijing Unifies Strategy For High-Quality Development
China has formally adopted the 15th Five-Year Plan, which serves as the master blueprint for the nation’s trajectory through the end of the decade. The plan prioritizes technological self-reliance, stability, and domestic consumption, with a focus on ‘high-quality development’ and ‘military-civil fusion.’ The defense budget has been set at $281 billion, a 7% increase from the previous year, with the goal of transforming the People’s Liberation Army into a fully ‘informationized’ and ‘intelligentized’ military. This development was reported by Unknown Source.