Global Times: Expert Chandran Nair sees China’s 15th Five-Year Plan as a global stability anchor, prioritising rural growth and sustainability.
Beijing, CHINA, May 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 2026 marks the commencement of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), a pivotal phase in the nation’s medium to long-term development. A successful venture starts with a good plan and with clear goals set. At this critical juncture, where a profound restructuring of the global order converges with a tipping point in the technological revolution, China’s five-year plan is poised to inject momentum and certainty into global development, charting a steady course for the new journey ahead.
In its “New Blueprint, New Opportunities” series, the Global Times (GT) invites Nobel laureates in economics, former central bank governors, core decision-makers of international organizations and renowned economists from countries with diverse civilizations, different economic systems and stages of development to deeply analyze how the 15th Five-Year Plan will reshape the underlying logic of China’s interaction with the world and to explore the “anchor of certainty” and “new paradigm of development” this plan offers to a turbulent world.
In the seventh installment of the series, GT reporter Wang Wenwen spoke to Chandran Nair (Nair), founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, an independent pan-Asian think tank based in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability and Experts Forum of the World Economic Forum.
GT: In the face of increasing global challenges, such as geopolitical conflicts and supply chain volatility, how does China’s 15th Five-Year Plan demonstrate resilience by using long-term planning to counter short-term disruptions?
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