<figure id="attachment_3246932" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3246932" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3246932 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/f77172b2-13502345_cropped_1.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3246932" class="wp-caption-text">China’s President Xi Jinping said the country&#8217;s economy is expected to have grown to about US$20 trillion in 2025. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
BEIJING: China will implement more proactive policies in 2026 aimed at supporting long-term growth, with its economy expected to meet Beijing&#8217;s growth target of about 5% this year, state media reported President Xi Jinping as saying today.
&#8220;The economy is expected to have grown to about ¥140 trillion (US$20 trillion) in 2025,&#8221; Xi said in his address at a New Year&#8217;s tea party of top Chinese Communist Party officials, state broadcaster CCTV said.
&#8220;Our country&#8217;s economy is expected to move forward under pressure&#8230;showing strong resilience and vitality,&#8221; Xi said in his speech.
&#8220;The country will promote effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth in the economy,&#8221; Xi said, while maintaining social harmony and stability.
China&#8217;s economy is expected to meet its &#8220;around 5%&#8221; growth target for 2025, even as momentum faltered towards year-end, weighed down by soft household consumption, persistent deflation and a prolonged property sector crisis.
Xi&#8217;s message reinforces recent government pledges to roll out measures for boosting people&#8217;s incomes and supporting consumption and investment to drive growth.
The central government has allocated ¥62.5 billion from special treasury bond proceeds to local governments to fund the consumer goods trade-in scheme next year, confirming that Beijing would continue to spur household demand through the programme.
China&#8217;s state planner has also released early investment plans for 2026, including two major construction projects, involving about ¥295 billion in central budget funding, in its latest effort to boost investment and support economic growth.

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China will push more proactive macro policies in 2026, says Xi

President Xi Jinping’s message reinforces government pledges to boost people’s incomes, consumption and investment to drive growth.

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