Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission: Over the next five years, the city's R&D investment intensity will remain above 6%.

On March 25, 2026, the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference opened in Beijing. At the “2026 Investment Beijing Conference” held that day, Lin Jianhua, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, introduced that in the next five years, Beijing will add more than one trillion in economic output.

At the conference, Lin Jianhua introduced some key indicators for the 14th Five-Year Plan: First is GDP, with the average annual growth rate target for Beijing’s GDP during the 14th Five-Year Plan set at 4.5% to 5%, while also striving for even better results. This means that in the next five years, Beijing will add more than one trillion in economic output. To support the achievement of this target, we will also maintain an average annual investment intensity of one trillion. Second is technological innovation; in the next five years, the city’s R&D investment intensity will remain above 6%, and the number of high-value invention patents per ten thousand people will increase from 181 at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan to about 240. Third is urban quality. We grasp the phased characteristics of the 14th Five-Year Plan and have added indicators reflecting urban living quality, such as the proportion of nursing beds in elderly care institutions increasing from 68% to 73%, the enrollment rate of children under three years old increasing by about 15 percentage points, the city’s greenery rate increasing from 23.2% to 24.2%, and the coverage rate of population and jobs within 500 meters of subway stations increasing from 23.86% to 25.7%.

(Edited by: Wenjing)

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