China's 14th Five-Year Plan
The “Two Sessions” have just debated and endorsed, as a quinquennial act, China’s 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025) including some longer-ranging goals spanning to 2035. FYPs have to be seen as important historic self-reflections that strategically re-prioritize ongoing policymaking for alignment with Chinese leaders’ fresh diagnosis of future success factors for China’s development, informed by substantial technocratic input from research and the bureaucracy on all levels of China’s political system. This Five-Year-Plan intends to put China on a resilient trajectory towards its 2nd centennial goal in 2049 amid global uncertainties. In response to these uncertainties, the Dual Circulation has been enshrined as the new top-level policy concept reflecting the leadership’s new strategic appreciation of China’s “super-sized” domestic market and the consumption potential of its middle class, while seeking to reduce its reliance on foreign technology and international markets.
Join us for this webinar on April 12 to get deeper insights into the FYP. Our guest
speakers from Sinolytics will explore the following topics:
- FYP's contextualization and tonality
- Macro-shifts in China's political economy incl. Dual
Circulation
- Trade policy and BRI
- Industrial and S&T policies with a focus on smart
manufacturing and machinery
- China standards 2035
- Corporations' long-term thinking on market resilience
in China's "socialist market economy"
- Digital economy: e-commerce, use of data, cross-border
data, market access/licenses
- Health after Covid19 (pharma and MedTech)
This webinar is co-organized with SwissCham China.
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Speakers
Markus Herrmann Chen
Director, Sinolytics
Markus is an experienced advisor to European corporate and public sector clients focusing on China’s foreign economic/trade, S&T and financial policies as well as government affairs strategies. He combines business understanding with policy analysis expertise and six years working experience in China. Prior to Sinolytics, Markus worked as a Government Affairs & Advocacy Director with Bayer MaterialScience (now: Covestro) in China and as Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in its Shanghai, Hong Kong and Zurich offices, focusing on financial services and industrial goods. Markus holds a MLaw from the universities of Bern and Geneva with focus on international public law and WTO law as well as a CAS in Public Policy from ETHZ.
Dr. Jost Wübbeke
Director, Sinolytics
Jost is a leading expert on China’s emerging technology trends and industrial policy. He leads consulting projects for building effective digital strategies on topics such as digital ecosystems, VC/PE investment, partnership scouting and e-Commerce platforms. His core experience focuses on new technologies and innovation policies in automotive, mechanical engineering and IT. Previously, he headed the industrial policy team of Europe’s largest China Think Tank, where he published groundbreaking analyses on Made in China 2025. He has a PhD from FU Berlin on China’s raw materials industry. He graduated in International Relations and China Studies from Berlin and Bochum and was research fellow at Tsinghua University.
Jingwen Tong
Consultant, Sinolytics
Jingwen is an expert in China’s public policy analysis and has deep understanding of policymaking and implementation dynamics at China’s local government level. At Sinolytics, Jingwen focuses on regulatory compliance, stakeholder analysis involving engagement with a variety of Chinese officials as well as analysis of China’s fast evolving social policies in particular in the area of health and urbanization. Prior to Sinolytics, she worked as a lead analyst at China Policy, a policy analysis and strategic advisory firm, delivering trade policy analysis products covering topics including the Greater Bay Area and the Sino-US trade conflict. Jingwen holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford.
Tiffany Wong
Consultant, Sinolytics
Tiffany is specialized in China’s foreign policy, digital economy, and technology markets. She advises clients on public and government affairs strategies and stakeholder engagement. She retains a focus on China’s grand strategy, geopolitical tensions, the BRI, and related issues such as the U.S. – China tech sphere bifurcation, as well as China’s cyber-governance policies, including standards on data security and information flow. Tiffany holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in International Economics and China Studies and a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Political Science and International Relations.
Martin Catarata
Analyst, Sinolytics
Martin tracks Chinese investments along the Belt and Road Initiative and analyzes geopolitical and socio-economic shifts it causes. He has worked extensively on projects evaluating strategic opportunities and risks of the BRI for European companies, analysis of Chinese SOEs in general as well as China’s S&T policies including its international cooperation. Currently, he is working on a dissertation on the topic of China’s maritime connectivity advised by Prof. Heilmann. He holds an B.A. in Sinology and M.A. in Political Science from Trier University and studied the Chinese political system and Chinese language at Sichuan University.
