13th Five-Year Plan | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 十三五规划 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 十三五規劃 | ||||||
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13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中华人民共和国国民经济和社会发展第十三个五年规划纲要 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中華人民共和國國民經濟社會發展第十三個五年規劃綱要 | ||||||
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The 13th Five-Year Plan of China,officially the 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China,was a set of economic goals designed to strengthen the Chinese economy between 2016 and 2020.
The Plan increased China's target for the use of non-fossil fuel energy sources to 15% over the 2016–2020 period. [1] : 28 It included planning to address wind energy and solar energy feed-in to the grid and prioritizing dispatch policies for renewable energy. [1] : 194 It also required that the government develop regulations for China's carbon emissions trading system. [2] : 47
Continuing themes from the Twelfth Five-Year Plan,the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan also sought to boost the services sector,increase urbanization,and expand the social safety net to reduce precautionary savings. [3] : 207
Regarding urbanization,the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan highlighted nineteen city clusters to be developed and strengthened pursuant to a geographic layout referred to as two horizontals and three verticals (liang heng san zong). [4] : 206 The highlighted clusters included the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,the Yangtze River delta region,and the Greater Bay area. [4] : 206 Development of these clusters includes establishing regional coordination mechanisms,sharing development costs and benefits,collaborative industrial development,and shared governance approaches to ecological issues and environmental protection. [4] : 208
Reducing reliance on foreign technology was a major goal of the plan. [5] : 221
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