What Did the Chinese Regime’s 13th Five-Year Economic Plan Accomplish?

Chinese leader Xi Jinping (bottom) arrives at the closing session of the Chinese regime’s rubber-stamp legislature conference while other Communist Party officials applaud, in Beijing, on May 28, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Commentary

While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is busy touting its 14th Five-Year Plan of economic and social development, let’s see what the 13th Five-Year Plan, which concludes at the end of this year, did and didn’t accomplish.

Seven Goals

The 13th Five-Year Plan was approved during the CCP’s fifth plenary session in 2015. Its objective was “to build a moderately prosperous society in all aspects,” Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said at the opening of the 13th session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top political advisory body, on Nov. 6, 2015.