15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030)

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China's national economic and social development plan for 2026–2030, in which embodied AI is named a future industry.

The 15th Five-Year Plan is China's fifteenth five-year plan, covering 2026 through 2030. The process runs in stages: the Central Committee of the Communist Party first issues recommendations for the plan (approved at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Party Central Committee in October 2025), and the State Council then drafts the full plan, which is approved at the National People's Congress session (the “Two Sessions”) in 2026. For embodied AI, the key point is that the plan's recommendations list embodied intelligence alongside quantum technology, biomanufacturing, brain-computer interfaces, and 6G as future industries to be cultivated as new sources of economic growth. A five-year plan shapes the ministry-level policies, local industrial plans, and state-capital investment of the following years, so financing news and local policy announcements often cite “implementing the 15th Five-Year Plan” as their backdrop.

Also called: China's 15th Five-Year Plan
Related: Future Industries · New Quality Productive Forces · AI+ Initiative · Embodied AI First Named in the Government Work Report · Embodied AI
Sources: Five-year plans of China - Wikipedia
As of: 2026-03