The State Council executive meeting adopted the '15th Five-Year Carbon Peak Action Plan' on June 29, 2026, calling for leveraging the strategic guidance of carbon peak and carbon neutrality to promote economic structural transformation and upgrading, and to create new green growth points. The plan proposes accelerating the optimization of energy structure, advancing green and low-carbon industrialization, and improving systems for laws, regulations, standards, and carbon emission statistical accounting. It also calls for scientifically and orderly evaluation and assessment, integrating green and low-carbon orientation into all aspects of the national economic cycle, and guiding the formation of green production and lifestyles.
The meeting also heard a report on AI development, emphasizing the need to improve support policies and governance systems, and to advance key technology research and the construction of ultra-large-scale intelligent computing clusters. It called for strengthening high-quality data supply, ensuring talent and financial support, encouraging enterprises to conduct basic research and frontier exploration, and deeply implementing the 'AI+' initiative to promote large-scale commercial application of intelligent products and services. On safety governance, the meeting stressed improving institutional rules on technology ethics, testing and certification, building a dynamic, tiered and classified safety regulatory system, and strengthening international cooperation on AI governance.
Addressing the current foreign trade situation and the building of a trade powerhouse, the meeting outlined measures to maintain sound momentum in foreign trade, increase support through credit and insurance, expand imports of quality goods and services, improve trade support systems, build public service platforms, and promote balanced import and export development. It emphasized enhancing the quality and efficiency of foreign trade, raising the brand influence and added value of merchandise trade, strengthening and optimizing trade in services and digital trade, fostering new trade forms and models, and advancing integration of trade and investment as well as domestic and foreign trade integration. It also called for actively expanding independent opening-up, safeguarding the international economic and trade order, and enhancing capacity to ensure security in foreign-related affairs.
Adopted together with the Carbon Peak Action Plan was the '15th Five-Year National Health Plan'. The meeting required building a full-life-cycle health service system, coordinating resource distribution, strengthening synergy among medical care, medical insurance, and disease control to provide systematic, continuous, high-quality and efficient health services. It proposed vigorously developing the health industry, improving support policies, cultivating new forms of health service businesses, enriching health product supply, strictly supervising quality and safety, so that the public can consume and live healthily with confidence.