Education development 15th Five-Year Plan
China Macro Group | policy · business · strategy
What it is
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.
Why it matters
The plan further ties educational resources and objectives to national science and technology priorities, with the undergraduate curriculum constantly benchmarked against gaps in China's S&T innovation system, amid AI driven disruptions in the labor market.
Implications
Medium low. FIEs will have a bigger available pool of relevant talent to hire, especially for Chinese policy-aligned traditional industry upgrading, emerging, or even future technologies.
Author:
Max de Bruyn Gomez
Analyst at CMG