Highlights of news conference on CPC plenary session

Opportunities, risks and uncertainties to mark new five-year plan period

China's development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–30) will be marked by strategic opportunities and growing risks and uncertainties, Han Wenxiu, executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs and director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group said.

China to press ahead on path of socialist modernization

China will press ahead on a steady path toward achieving socialist modernization by 2035, Han Wenxiu said, as the country looks to consolidate its progress and lay a solid foundation for long-term national development.

Regular support needed to keep people off poverty, official says

The fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee called for more efforts to establish a mechanism to lend support on a regular basis to people in rural areas and prevent a large-scale relapse into poverty, Han Wenxiu said.