Data in China | China's 2025 budget draft is coming

2025 is the final year of China's implementing the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), making the compilation of this year's budgets and public finance work all the more important. China will adhere to the principles of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, promoting stability through progress, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, establishing the new before abolishing the old, and achieving systematic integration through coordination.

Here are five takeaways from a draft budget report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on March 5. (Text/Ma Ziqian, Picture/Jia Zifan)