China has confirmed that it achieved its annual growth target last year despite having to weather an unprecedented trade war with the United States, which may harden Beijing’s confidence as it prepares to roll out its latest five-year plan.
The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 5 per cent from a year earlier in 2025, in line with the government target of “around 5 per cent”, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.
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Kang Yi, commissioner of the statistics bureau, said China’s economy had withstood multiple pressures to sustain a steady growth momentum in 2025. But he cautioned that changes in the external environment were intensifying, supply continued to exceed demand, and that many “long-standing problems and new challenges still remain in economic development”.
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“We must adopt more proactive and effective macro policies, continue to expand domestic demand, improve the supply … so as to get the 15th five-year plan period off to a good start,” Kang added.