China’s latest five-year plan aims for technological self-reliance

China’s new five-year plan — an overarching policy proposal for the next term of Chinese Communist Party leadership — is focused on making the nation technologically self-reliant and less vulnerable to foreign pressure, Bloomberg reports. The plan has yet to be officially adopted, but is being released ahead of a summit between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

The main focus of the proposal is to make China’s tech and science industries self-reliant and less dependent…