The following article by Helga Zepp-LaRouche was published by {Global Times on Dec. 19:}
Success of the Chinese Economy a Pivotal Factor in Addressing All Potential Challenges: German Scholar
By Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Published: Dec. 19, 2025 11:07 p.m.
China’s Central Economic Work Conference in December offers an essential mechanism to analyze the economic performance of the past year, identify newly emerged challenges, and provide clear guidelines for the next stage of the economic orientation. It serves as an important regulatory checkpoint to establish a clear understanding of the policy direction for all levels of the economic process.
The conference also serves as an institutional mechanism where short-term regulations are integrated with long-term planning. This approach effectively supports stable, sustained growth and high-quality development by ensuring the continuous integration of cutting-edge scientific and technological breakthroughs, thereby fostering ongoing innovation. This innovation, in turn, serves as the foundation for steadily improving people’s living standards. Such a hands-on strategy has clearly enhanced the resilience of the Chinese economy, enabling it to better withstand external shocks in an increasingly turbulent global environment.
The Central Economic Work Conference stressed that the country must tap new space for demand growth to strengthen the domestic circulation, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation to develop new quality productive forces, and unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening-up so as to unleash the momentum and vitality for high-quality development.
China has recognized the revolutionary effect of the continuous injection of qualitative innovation and the effect of adequate disruptive technologies on the production process, therefore, the country will put a lot of emphasis on developing emerging industries in the coming Five-Year Plan, such as new forms of energy, new materials, aerospace, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, smart processes and digitization, as well as robotics in industrial production.
