Policies

A cross-sector implementation policy promoting AI-enabled products, services and consumption scenarios, including smart devices, intelligent vehicles, robots, retail, tourism, hospitality, education and elderly care.

A policy package intended to remove restrictions and cultivate new consumption in automobile modification, maintenance, vehicle leasing, recreational vehicles, motorsports and other automotive aftermarket activities.

A comprehensive policy for modernizing China’s retail sector through new business formats, digitalization, commercial-facility upgrading, supply-chain optimization, instant retail and improved financing support.

A package of measures to professionalize and standardize China’s domestic-services industry, covering workforce training, labor protections, service standards, credit records, platform governance and integration with elderly-care services.

Jointly issued by NDRC and NEA, the plan lays out quantified targets for domestic oil‑gas output, long‑distance pipeline build‑out, national strategic reserves, CCS/CCUS scale‑up, and oil‑gas market‑oriented reform. It also covers upstream exploration & production, the building of a “unified national pipeline network”, storage infrastructure, diversified import pathways, and breakthroughs in ...

New State Council plan updating China’s full intellectual property legal, judicial, administrative and international cooperation system, covering AI IP, data IP, trade secrets, patents, copyrights, and cross-border IP dispute mechanisms.

Effective September 20, 2026, this State Council regulation revises housing provident fund rules, expanding eligible withdrawal scenarios, opening voluntary enrollment for flexible workers, nationalizing cross-city fund mobility, and raising corporate penalties for non-compliance.

Effective September 15, 2026, this new State Council regulation establishes outbound safety risk alerts for Chinese citizens, creates statutory exit‑ban grounds for Chinese persons violating export‑control and technology‑security rules, and mandates registration‑based compliance for all domestic exit‑entry (visa) intermediaries. It also provides a legal basis for 1‑5‑year entry bans for foreigners ...

The State Council’s education plan for 2026 to 2030 expands undergraduate enrolment at China’s Double First-Class universities toward populous and central and western provinces and calls for extraordinary measures to reform the undergraduate curriculum.

This NDRC measure makes the new energy 15th five-year plan's targets operational by assigning each province a binding renewable electricity consumption quota and each priority industry a minimum renewable consumption share.