China is injecting $3.7 trillion (25 trillion yuan) into six projects of infrastructure and technological advance, which will propel its physical economy into the future, as part of its Five Year 2026-2030 plan. This will not only advance China’s economy, but serves as an alternative model to the avowedly Von Hayek Mont Pelerin Society model which the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and France have been following, which is driving them into decrepitude, negative population growth, and oblivion.
Funding for these “six network projects” commenced at the start of 2026. Around 5 trillion yuan (U.S. $746 billion) is expected to be invested in urban underground pipelines, including gas, water, supply drainage, and heating infrastructure. China has ageing water drainage piping, heating and gas networks. So does the United States in eastern cities along the Atlantic Ocean: Boston, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore. and Charleston. In some ways, it is easier to build new underground infrastructure in a new city than in an older, existing city. It will be instructive to see what technological methods China will use to build new infrastructure in existing cities, without interfering with or shutting down the functioning of those cities—this could be an innovation model to be copied by the western world.
Computing-power networks alone are expected to attract 4 trillion yuan (US$589 billion) of new direct investment between 2026 and 2030, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, as reported October 5 by Worldconstruction week.com.
Separate figures from the Five Year Plan indicate investment of more than 5 trillion yuan (US$895 billion) in China’s monumental nationwide water network, which spreads water across the country—such as China’s massive South-North Water Transfer Project. A slightly lower amount (US $746 billion) is being invested in new-type power grids for the five-year period. The other two networks of the “six network projects” are electricity and communications.
In all of this, China’s NDRC and State Council are at the center of the dirigist planning. To make this work, China will use Hamiltonian credit methods to infuse a considerable part of the needed funds. A significant share of the investment is expected to come through central government funding, long-term bonds, policy bank lending and state-owned enterprises. China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has also widened its Pledged Supplementary Lending facility to support the six-network projects, including water, power, and technology infrastructure, Worldconstructionweek reports.
The six-networks projects, which are critical, are subsumed from a higher standpoint. Prior to the Five Year Plan’s release, EIR’s Richard Black evaluated the “Recommendations of the Central Committee of the CPC [Chinese Communist Party,]” which was published Oct. 28, 2025, containing the essential principles of the Five-Year Plan. Black stated, “What is outstanding is a focus on a national mission of improving original work at the frontiers of science, and the national integration of education, industry, R&D, and the development of new technologies and the skilled labor force. These recommendations are in line with President Xi Jinping’s call, during the course of the last year, for the development of ‘a new theory of productive forces.’”
Black continued, “In the section titled, ‘Guiding Principles and Major Objectives for Economic and Social Development...,’ the authors call for ‘Substantial improvements in scientific and technological self-reliance and strength. We should markedly boost the overall performance of China’s innovation system and establish a basic framework for the integrated development of education, science and technology, and human resources. We should significantly strengthen our capacity for basic research and original innovation, achieve faster progress in securing breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, and see that China keeps pace or even leads the way in many more fields. Full integration should be achieved between technological and industrial innovation, and innovation should play a more prominent role in driving development.’”
At any point, the United States, Germany, and other Western nations, now so intent on fighting wars, could adopt China’s dirigist planning and scientific method. Those Western nations would thereby stop their economic degeneration and, instead, grow.
