National Economic and Social Development, which will be implemented in 2026. The session carried out top-level design and strategic planning for China’s economic and social development from 2026 to 2030, and launched a new mobilization and overall deployment to advance Chinese-style modernization in a sustained manner.

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China has adhered to planning-led development and successfully achieved a historic leap — from “standing up” to “becoming prosperous,” and then to “growing strong.” Today, China’s per-capita GDP exceeds 13,000 U.S. dollars, its total economic output remains the world’s second largest, and its contribution to global economic growth stays around 30 percent. This year marks the conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan period. China’s GDP is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan, laying a solid foundation for the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan, which aims to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035.

According to the Plan, China will further expand high-standard opening-up, share opportunities and pursue common development with all countries, and create a new landscape of win-win cooperation. The opening-up agenda involves four major areas of focus. First, China will actively expand institutional opening-up, balancing domestic needs and global expectations, and further widen market access and opening-up sectors. Second, it will promote innovative development of trade, expand trade in intermediate goods and green trade, improve the negative-list management system for cross-border services trade, and steadily broaden opening-up in the digital domain. Third, it will enlarge the space for two-way investment cooperation, fostering a transparent, stable, and predictable institutional environment.

Fourth, China will pursue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, advancing both landmark projects and “small but beautiful” livelihood programs in a coordinated manner, deepening pragmatic cooperation in trade, investment, industry, and culture, and expanding cooperation in green development, digital economy, and artificial intelligence. These efforts will open up new horizons for cooperation between China and countries around the world, including Suriname.

China and Suriname are good friends and trustworthy partners. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations nearly half a century ago, the two countries have always respected each other, treated each other as equals, and engaged in sincere cooperation. Exchanges and cooperation across various fields have continued to deepen, delivering tangible benefits to both peoples. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Suriname, bringing new opportunities for further growth of bilateral ties. The two sides should enhance exchanges on governance experience, learn from each other’s successful practices, and work hand in hand to advance their respective modernization drives. Both countries should fully tap the potential of mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, promote high-quality practical collaboration, and continuously achieve new outcomes. They should jointly uphold true multilateralism, safeguard international fairness and justice, and advance the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.