On December 3, 2025, an article by Ambassador Wu Wei titled "Drawing up a New Blueprint for High-Quality Development, Composing a New Chapter of Mutually Beneficial Cooperation" was published in The Kaselehlie Press, the bi-weekly newspaper in the FSM, in its Vol. 25 and Iss. 25.

The full text is as follows: 

From October 20 to 23, 2025, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was successfully convened in Beijing. This plenary session was an important meeting held at a critical time when China is on the verge of accomplishing the major objectives and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and is entering a key period of reinforcing the foundations and pushing ahead on all fronts toward basically realizing socialist modernization. The session deliberated over and adopted the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, outlining the top-level design and strategic blueprint for the next five years. I would like to share the key points of this meeting with our friends in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

Solid steps have been taken toward high-quality development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period

Over the past five years, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the Chinese people have risen to challenges and forged ahead, withstood the severe shock of a once-in-a-century COVID-19 pandemic, and responded effectively to a raft of major risks and challenges, securing significant new achievements in advancing Chinese modernization.

This period has been a crucial phase for laying the foundations of China's basic realization of socialist modernization. The transformation unseen in a century has accelerated over the past five years, presenting unprecedented challenges in reform, development, and stability. China's economy has grown in the wind and rain, and gotten stronger through hard times. In the first four years of this period, China's economy maintained an average annual growth rate of 5.5 percent, ranking among the highest among major global economies. Its economic output has successively crossed the thresholds of RMB 110 trillion, 120 trillion, and 130 trillion yuan, and is expected to reach approximately RMB 140 trillion yuan this year. The incremental growth is projected to exceed RMB 35 trillion yuan. China has consistently contributed around 30 percent to global economic growth annually, serving as the most stable and reliable engine for the world economy.

Innovation-driven development has achieved remarkable progress. China's first space station, Tiangong, has been fully constructed and put into operation. The Chang'e-6 lunar probe accomplished the mission of bringing back the first samples from the far side of the moon. The domestically-made C919 large passenger aircraft, designed according to international airworthiness standards, has operated its first commercial flight. These firsts demonstrate major breakthroughs in China's scientific and technological innovation and industrial development.

People's well-being has been improved. China has established the world's largest education system, social security system, and healthcare system. The completion rate of nine-year compulsory education, as well as the coverage rates of basic pension and basic medical insurance, have remained steadily above 95 percent. China's high-speed rail operating mileage is twice that of all other countries combined. Fresh products can reach residents' tables with same-day delivery or next-day arrival from farms, while transportation and express delivery services have become more efficient. People's sense of gain, happiness, and security has been significantly enhanced.

The efficiency and quality of green development have been upgraded and improved. With its forest coverage rising to over 25 percent, China has contributed one-quarter of the world's new green coverage. Days of air quality reaching good or excellent levels account for about 87 percent. China has built the world's largest clean power generation system and its new energy generation capacity has reached a historic milestone by surpassing that of coal power. The idea that lucid waters and lush mountains are mountains of gold and silver has taken root in people's hearts, and green development has become a defining feature of contemporary China, where skies are bluer, waters are clearer, and lands are cleaner.

The blueprint for the 15th Five-Year Plan enables us to pool strength in tackling key challenges on the path to Chinese modernization

Socialist modernization can only be realized through a historical process of gradual and ongoing development. Formulating and implementing the five-year plans in a scientific way is an important experience of the Party in governing the country, significantly representing the political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. From the first Five-Year Plan to the 14th Five-Year Plan, the constant theme has been building China into a modern socialist country.

The adopted Recommendations outlines approaches and major tasks in the key areas of industrial development, scientific and technological innovation, the domestic market, the economic structure, opening up, rural revitalization, coordinated regional development, cultural development, public well-being, green development, security and development, and national defense. With five more years of efforts, China is going to realize following seven major objectives for the 15th Five-Year Plan period: significant achievements in high-quality development; substantial improvements in scientific and technological self-reliance and strength; fresh breakthroughs in further deepening reform comprehensively; notable cultural and ethical progress across society; further improvements in quality of life; major new strides in advancing the Beautiful China Initiative; and further advances in strengthening the national security shield.

In China, we say that we should work from generation to generation on the same blueprint to make it a reality. Building on the efforts made during the 14th, 15th, and 16th Five-Year Plan period, we will see that by the year 2035, China's economic strength, scientific and technological capabilities, national defense capabilities, composite national strength, and international influence will all be markedly stronger, that its per capita GDP will be on a par with that of a mid-level developed country, that its people will live better and happier lives, and that socialist modernization will be basically realized. Through successive Five-Year Plans, we will turn the grand goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation into a magnificent reality.

The China-FSM cooperation has yielded fruitful results

Since China and the FSM established diplomatic relations 36 years ago, the two countries have always respected each other, treated each other as equals, and pursued friendly cooperation for mutually beneficial results. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, under the guidance of the important consensus reached by our two heads of state, the China-FSM relations maintained sound and steady development. Exchanges and dialogue at all levels have been deepened, practical cooperation in infrastructure and other fields has been advanced steadily, and people-to-people exchanges have become increasingly close. We have walked hand in hand on the journey of advancing our respective national development, painting a vivid picture of win-win cooperation across the vast Pacific Ocean.

At present, the international landscape continues to undergo profound changes as the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. Peace and development are facing numerous new risks and challenges. Against this backdrop, China has put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, to counter the uncertainty of rapid changes in the external environment with the certainty of high-quality development. The Recommendations states that opening up and cooperation for mutual benefit are integral to Chinese modernization. China will continue to expand opening up at the institutional level, safeguard the multilateral trading system, and promote broader international economic flows, and China will draw momentum from opening up to propel reform and development, and share opportunities with the FSM and the rest of the world and promote common development.

Recently, China and five Pacific Island countries, including the FSM, jointly signed the Framework Agreement on Enhanced Economic Partnership (EEPA). Based on mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, China stands ready to share its vast market and broad development opportunities with Pacific Island countries. Standing at the new starting point of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we are willing to join hands with the FSM to further expand cooperation in various fields such as infrastructure and climate change response, and continue to deepen exchanges in education, youth, and subnational cooperation, so as to advance the China-FSM Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, jointly build a closer community with a shared future between China and the Pacific Island countries, and work together to promote peace, development, and prosperity in the Pacific Islands region.