# Proposals adopted by the fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee prioritize sci-tech development

The proposals for formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035 adopted at the fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee were officially issued on Nov. 3. 

They stress that China will uphold the central role of innovation in its modernization drive, placing self-reliance and self-strengthening of science and technology at the top of all planning tasks and making special arrangements, for the first time in the CPC's history of five-year plans.

The CPC Central Committee originally came up with its innovation-driven development strategy at the 18th CPC National Congress, before proposing innovation as the primary driving force for development at the 19th CPC National Congress. It has been continuously carrying forward and evolving its strategies, guidelines, plans and arrangements for scientific and technological innovation. The arrangements this time, with clear strategies and pragmatic approaches, will chart a course for the evolution of sci-tech in China.