China’s 14th five-year plan for 2021-25 discussed, unpacked explained
- The Hong Kong-based One Country Two Systems Research Institute is hosting an event on Tuesday examining China’s 14th five-year plan that was approved at the National People’s Congress earlier this month
- Hosted by former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying, the event is being live streamed on scmp.com, and will also feature former Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing chief executive Charles Li
A key drafter of China’s 14th five-year plan and several of Beijing’s top economists will take part in a high-level panel meeting on Tuesday to discuss the mainland blueprint and how it can create new opportunities for Hong Kong.
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Hu Zucai, vice-chair of China’s state planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, who played a key role in drafting the blueprint, will be among the line-up of speakers at the event.
Other panellists from mainland China are Wang Zhigang, Minister of Science and Technology; Yang Weimin, standing committee member and deputy director of the Committee on Economic Affairs to the 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee; Xu Ze, president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies; and Professor Liu Yuanchun, a vice-president of Renmin University of China, and one of the top economic advisers to the central leadership.
Former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying will host the event, which is co-organised by the One Country Two Systems Research Institute.
Other representatives from the city will include former Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited chief executive Charles Li; Lionel M. Ni, provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; former deputy executive director of Hong Kong Trade Development Council Raymond Ip; and James Wang, research director at the Bay Area Hong Kong Centre.
