A growth rate of 4.5-5 percent is well above that of major global economies, and cannot be considered conservative; it aligns with China"s actual economic conditions. In 2025, China"s GDP surpassed 140 trillion yuan ($19.4 trillion). With growth of "4.5-5 percent" this year, the incremental increase will reach 6.3 trillion to 7 trillion yuan, close to the total GDP of the country ranked 20th globally in 2025, equivalent to the economic size of a medium-sized country. This increment is substantial.

　　In particular, China"s economy has shifted toward high-quality development, no longer focusing solely on GDP growth, but on developing new quality productive forces and strengthening hard capabilities. In 2025, China remained at the forefront globally in the research and application of artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robotics, and quantum technology; achieved new breakthroughs in independent chip development; launched the Tianwen-2 mission; expanded the large-scale application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System; and saw domestically developed large models lead the global open-source ecosystem… Meanwhile, the industrial structure continued to improve, with value added in high-tech manufacturing increasing by 9.4 percent and that in equipment manufacturing by 9.2 percent, while output of industrial robots rose by 28 percent and that of integrated circuits by 10.9 percent.