On March 12, 2026, the National People’s Congress approved the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The Party’s proposals for the plan had been adopted at the Fourth Plenum in October 2025. People’s Daily wrote that carrying out the plan would lay “a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035.”
The same article described one line running through all the plans: “From the First Five-Year Plan to the 14th Five-Year Plan, the consistent theme has been to build our country into a modern socialist country.”