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China's 12th Five Year Plan

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Thank you for your interest in the EIU's China coverage. You are invited to listen to a new video featuring our analysis in advance of China's upcoming Five Year Plan. EIU's Alexander Van Kemenade, Senior China Analyst, explains the EIU view of China's 12th Five Year Plan and the National People's Congress.

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China's 12th five-year plan (FYP), governing the period from 2011 to 2015, is likely to be confirmed at the meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC, China's legislature) in March. New issues are going to be raised and will reflect the government's agenda for the next five years. These priorities will certainly affect the government's domestic and foreign investment directives relevant to international businesses. New areas include:

  • Environmental issues, including higher efficiency in use of energy and water. Carbon emissions are explicitly mentioned for the first time.
  • Development of the welfare state to restrain widening social inequality.
  • Rebalancing China's growth to be sustainable over the long term.

Projecting which policies China will adopt remains challenging. Alexander will walk you
through the potential opportunities with a review of the Five Year Plan.

Please enjoy this audio briefing, compliments of the Economist Intelligence Unit

Best regards,

Robert A. Ward
Director of Country Analysis


Alexander Van Kemenade

Alexander Van Kemenade

Senior Analyst, China Regional Forecasting Service
Economist Intelligence Unit

Alexander Van Kemenade is an expert on provincial and city-level macroeconomic developments in China. Van Kemenade, who has lived in China for 22 years and speaks fluent Mandarin, regularly briefs businesses and governments around the world on their regional strategy for China.

Van Kemenade joined the EIU in 2007 and helped to establish the EIU's China Regional Forecasting Service (CRFS), the most reliable and in-depth information service in the world for China's provinces and prefectures. He is the editor of various EIU publications on regional growth dynamics in China. He built and maintains the China city population models, as well as the EIU's competitiveness rankings for 287 Chinese cities. He has been involved in numerous industry research projects in China, including in the automotive, education and food and beverage sectors.

Previously, van Kemenade worked on international trade policy as a Project Manager with the EU–China Trade Project, a Chinese government program to help implement China's WTO commitments. Before that, he was a macroeconomic analyst at Xinhua Finance, a joint–venture financial newswire in Beijing.

Van Kemenade studied Economics, Politics and Philosophy for his BA at the University College of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and has a Graduate Diploma in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

In his free time, he enjoys playing electric bass in a local progressive rock band.