For observers close to Chinese policy, the country's annual parliamentary meeting this year has sent an important message: Beijing plans to strengthen investments in high technology, supports economics and steel by signaling itself for a more hostile geopolitical environment.
The session of a week of the National Congress of Rubber Peoples, which ended this week, was characterized by the rhetoric of China as a chaotic island in a chaotic world while celebrating the breakthroughs of artificial intelligence by Chinese societies such as Deepseek.
This is the Deepseek congress, said Kerry Brown, director of the Lau China Institute in Kings College, London.
Brown said that the PNJ session calendar, coming at a time when US President Donald prevails over the rapid development of trade and that foreign policies have threatened to release international chaos, had exerted additional pressure on Chinese leaders to differentiate itself from the United States.
For Beijing, it was: Oh my God, we have been talking for years about a complicated world situation and now it has really struck and we have to look like adults because everyone is going crazy, he said.
At a press conference at the NPC, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi underlined a stable approach to Chinas.
Today, the world is intertwined with agitation, and certainty is becoming more and more a rare resource worldwide, Wang said. Chinese diplomacy will remain firmly on the right side of history and the side of human progress. We will provide certainty to this uncertain world.
Each spring, around 5,000 delegates and members meet in Beijing for NPC meetings and the political consultative conference of Chinese peoples, which are known together under the name of two sessions.
The sessions are closely monitored by investors for the signals of Beijing's economic and strategic objectives, analysts closely analyzing the communist paraginian of official speeches and documents.
Beijing has prioritized national security in recent years, often a word of economic growth, according to analysts. But last September, the growth of GDP strongly slowing down due to a long -standing crisis in the real estate sector, the leaders have changed their promotion to increase consumption, announcing a monetary stimulus and later trying to invigorate the private sector.
In his work report, an annual report of the achievements and objectives of the governments delivered at the opening of the NPC, the Chinas leader, the first leader, Li Qiang, underlined the need to better guarantee development and security.
But he also stressed the importance of strengthening the domestic demand that the work report used the consumption of words 32 times, against 21 times in 2024, more than references frequent to technology, with 29 mentions.
Li also introduced into the lexicon of the work report for the first time the term embodied IA, which means robots or machines powered by AI.
The central government's budget of 2025, announced during the NPC session, established an increase of 8.3% in annual slip of spending in the technology sector almost double the rise in general budgetary expenditure and more than for social well-being.
The delegates enthusiastically adopted the accent on technology, several interviewed by the Financial Times marrying the AI ​​embodied and the need to double the semiconductor investment.
Humanoid robots have a promising future, said delegate Jiang Yuanxun during the closing session of the NPC in the great people's room, the Mao era sprawl political complex on Beijing Tiananmen Square. Deepseek changes our lives.
Zhang Yunquan, a CPPCC member and expert at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the Stokehold of American technology meant that local AI pioneers such as depth problems were faced with problems with access to adequate computer power.
China will certainly invest more funds, talents and teams to develop its own high -end computer flea, said Zhang. Sooner or later, we will cross the bottleneck of the computing power.
During the parallel meetings of delegations from provincial delegations, senior leaders took badly to warn executives that the global economy and the global environment were difficult.
They have repeatedly used the expression a complex and severe situation of growing external pressure, said Manoj Kewalramani, author of a newsletter which provides daily interpretations of the flagship daily newspaper of communist peoples.
They transmitted to everyone that things are going to be difficult … And we just have to learn to live with it, he said.
For some NPC delegates, the low indoor economy of China, which suffers from deflationary pressures, was a more urgent problem than global disorders.
Consumer expenses are indeed poor this year, even worse than last year, said a delegate, Li Dexiang, who is also president of the Guizhou Heli Supermarket Group retailer. I think ordinary people are more and more reluctant to spend money.
On the property, Prime Minister LI used a simple language for the first time to describe the sectors of the sectors, claiming that the government would contain the slowdown and restore stability on the real estate market. A year earlier, he only said that it would defuse risks in real estate.
The work report has also been more frank on the problems of governments with direct foreign investment, which has undergone record declines in recent years. This year, he spoke of stabilizing the IED, while in 2024, he only spoke of attracting more foreign investments.
There have also been discussions at NPC concerns about social stability, a problem that broke out last year after several acts of mass violence.
The work report of the Supreme Peoples Prosecutor, also subject to NPC, specifically mentioned by his name, two men recognized as guilty of mass massacres in the south of Chinas Zhuhai and the east of Wuxi.
Kewalramani said that a meeting between President Xi Jinping and the Liberation Army delegation of the Peoples also sent an important message. During the meeting, XI, which pushed a large anti-grafting repression against the APL, demanded the establishment of a solid and effective surveillance system to investigate and approach corruption in the armed forces.
The Kings Colleges Brown have said that if the NPC session has transmitted a relatively friendly language on foreign investments and China being an internationally responsible player, he has little to say about the way Beijing could exploit the opportunities created by an approach to Trumps' Esclors to third countries.
The Wangs Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs has given a possible suspicion of reflection to Beijing. Wang presented a plan to extend the Brics group of emerging nations and alluded to the hope of Chinas for the world South the mass of non -aligned developing countries that Beijing has partially ran to undermine the American world influence.
We will continue to extend equal, open and cooperative world partnerships, said Wang, saying Beijing hoped to write a new chapter of Unity … with the world South.
Wenjie Ding additional reports in Beijing
