GDP growth
Average annual growth during 2026–2030; the 2025 rate was about 5.5%.
Zhejiang Province · 2026–2030
Zhejiang’s 15th Five-Year Plan
浙江省国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划纲要
A provincial strategy that ties technology, private enterprise and global trade gateways to common prosperity, metropolitan integration, rural development and a lower-carbon infrastructure system.
- R&D intensity
- ≥3.5%
- AI core revenue
- ¥1.2tn
- Resident income
- ≈¥90k
- National trade share
- ≈12%
The plan in plain English
A growth model built around firms, flows and shared gains
Zhejiang’s plan treats economic dynamism and social balance as one project. It asks private firms, AI, advanced manufacturing and trade hubs to generate growth, while provincial institutions redirect opportunity through metropolitan networks, counties, villages, public services and income policy. The spatial question is as important as the industrial one: how can Hangzhou, Ningbo, Yiwu and the coast pull along mountain and island communities?
2030 scoreboard
Nineteen numbers that make the strategy concrete
Some are top-level goals and others are sector targets. Together they reveal where the province expects scale, where it demands distributional progress and where infrastructure must change.
R&D intensity
Research and development expenditure as a share of provincial GDP.
Labour productivity
Output per employed person by 2030.
Industrial growth
Average annual growth of value added by above-scale industrial firms.
National trade share
Zhejiang’s target share of China’s combined goods and services trade.
Disposable income
Average per-capita disposable income for residents by 2030.
AI core revenue
Revenue of above-scale firms in the core AI industry.
Commodity imports and exports
Annual trade through the commodity resource-allocation hub.
Yiwu trade
The plan aims for Yiwu’s imports and exports to reach this scale.
Ocean share of GDP
Target contribution of the marine economy to provincial GDP.
Tourism share of GDP
Target value added of the tourism industry.
Low-income rural households
Per-capita disposable income for low-income rural households.
Rail network
A province-wide network in which every prefecture-level city has high-speed rail.
5G-A base stations
Alongside 150,000 50G-PON ports and early deployment of 6G and satellite internet.
New non-fossil capacity
Share of added generating capacity that should be non-fossil.
Zero-carbon parks
Provincial zero-carbon industrial parks to be completed by 2030.
Out-of-pocket spending
Personal health expenditure as a share of total health expenditure.
Sports space
Sports-venue area per resident by 2030.
Cleaner truck fleet
Share of China VI-compliant and new-energy trucks.
Provincial geography
Two cores, two belts, three metropolitan circles and one urban cluster
The outline uses a layered spatial system to connect the strong Hangzhou Bay economy with the coast, inland cities, counties, mountains and islands.
Hangzhou–Ningbo twin core
Hangzhou is positioned as the main source of original innovation, AI and digital-economy growth. Ningbo combines advanced manufacturing with a global port, trade and coastal-city role. Shaoxing is the connecting “shoulder pole” between them.
Two industrial belts
The Hangzhou Bay belt concentrates AI, integrated circuits, platforms and leading projects. The coastal belt links industry chains, green energy, high-end ships, marine engineering and the Wenzhou–Taizhou private economy.
Three metropolitan circles and one urban cluster
The plan advances the Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou metropolitan circles, plus the Jinhua–Yiwu–Quzhou–Lishui urban cluster, with different roles in innovation, ports, private enterprise and inland opening.
Ocean Zhejiang
Ningbo and Zhoushan anchor the marine economy. The province adds clean energy, marine materials, biomedicine, deep-sea equipment and intelligent “air-space-sea” systems to its established port and shipbuilding base.
Mountain and island counties
A differentiated “one county, one policy” approach supports local industries, ecological value and public services. Cross-regional “development enclaves” can share tax, land and carbon benefits.
Yangtze River Delta
Zhejiang links more closely with Shanghai and neighbouring provinces through research, industrial corridors, rail, energy, environmental management and the demonstration zone around Jiashan.
How the model works
Enterprise, innovation and distribution are designed to reinforce one another
Private enterprise
The plan protects property and market access, limits profit-driven enforcement, improves credit repair and opens competitive infrastructure fields to private capital. Eligible projects may allow private holdings above 10%.
Innovation-to-industry
Universities, laboratories, firms and manufacturing chains are connected through enterprise-led research, concept validation, pilot-production platforms and “scientist + entrepreneur” partnerships.
Common prosperity
Growth is assessed alongside the three gaps: urban–rural, regional and income. The plan connects metropolitan growth to counties, villages, lower-income households and portable public services.
Industrial portfolio
Manufacturing stays central, with services and future technologies around it
These groupings are an editorial guide to the plan’s named sectors. They show how Zhejiang intends to renew its traditional clusters while building new technology and service capabilities.
Established manufacturing
- Green petrochemicals
- Textiles and apparel
- Electrical machinery
- Home goods and appliances
- Tea, silk, rice wine and traditional medicine
Emerging industries
- Artificial intelligence
- New materials
- New energy
- Aerospace and low-altitude economy
- Biomedicine
- Integrated circuits
- High-end software
- New-energy vehicles
Future industries
- Humanoid robots
- Brain–computer interfaces
- Brain-inspired intelligence
- Quantum information
- Biomanufacturing
- Hydrogen energy
Modern services
- Industrial software and R&D services
- Technology finance and IP
- Shipping and logistics
- E-commerce and digital trade
- Professional and legal services
- Health, childcare, tourism and culture
Artificial intelligence
AI is treated as infrastructure, industry and a governing capability
Compute
Build a coordinated provincial computing system, a national hub and multi-level services for SMEs, universities and hospitals, with electricity and computing planned together.
Data
Create regional data-infrastructure nodes in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou, trusted data spaces, high-quality datasets and data-circulation facilities.
Models and chips
Support large language, multimodal, vertical and industry models, affordable development environments and projects that link models with domestic chips.
Industry
Develop a ¥1.2tn core cluster spanning chips, foundation models, agents, embodied intelligence, intelligent driving, terminals and application services.
Deployment
Apply AI to research, agriculture, manufacturing, services, consumption, education, health, care, planning, public safety and environmental management.
Governance and global links
Use embedded ethics review, graded safety assessment and regulatory sandboxes while supporting open-source communities, international standards and Belt and Road cooperation.
Global connections
Six gateways move goods, services, data and firms
Ningbo–Zhoushan Port
Five ten-million-TEU berth groups, three hundred-million-ton bulk-cargo berth groups, expanded ocean routes and higher-value shipping services reinforce the world-class port.
Commodity hub
Storage, processing, bunkering, trade, digital platforms and futures–spot links are combined around an annual ¥710bn import-export target.
Yiwu
The “buy globally, sell globally” market adds digital trade, one-stop customs–FX–tax–logistics–finance services, cross-border settlement and a ¥1tn trade ambition.
Rail and inland ports
The Jinhua–Yiwu China–Europe Railway Express hub, the “sixth port area” and the Yiwu–Ningbo–Zhoushan corridor connect inland production to seaports and the trans-Caspian route.
Airports
Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou airports gain stronger hub roles; Jiaxing specialises in air freight, while Hangzhou Bay develops a wider airport economy.
Digital trade and FTZ
The province links single-window trade systems across sea, land and air ports, tests cross-border digital identity and offshore data transactions, and differentiates the Zhoushan, Ningbo, Hangzhou and Jinyi free-trade zones.
Common prosperity
The province turns distribution into a spatial and institutional programme
“Common prosperity” in this outline is implemented through income, mobility, land, public-service and interregional mechanisms—not through one headline redistribution measure.
Closing three gaps
The organising test is whether policy narrows urban–rural, regional and income gaps. Resident income should rise with GDP, and low-income rural household income should exceed ¥38,000 per person.
Counties, towns and villages
County towns receive more industry and public services; major towns can become county sub-centres; the “Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation” approach coordinates rural industry, services and settlement.
Mountain–coast partnerships
Developed counties, provincial agencies and state-owned firms support mountain and island areas through paired assistance, shared industrial platforms and benefit-sharing mechanisms.
People moving to cities
Residence permits become interoperable across the province, and eligible migrants should gain equal access to social insurance, housing support and public-school places for children.
Income distribution
Wage growth, skilled-worker pay, entrepreneurship, transfers, charity and targeted programmes are used to expand the middle-income group and raise low incomes.
Everyday public services
The province integrates education, healthcare, pensions, childcare, disability support and community services, with standards increasingly aligned across cities and, where feasible, province-wide.
Infrastructure and climate
Transport, energy, water and digital systems are planned together
Rail and metropolitan mobility
Rail exceeds 5,000 km, every prefecture-level city gains high-speed rail, metropolitan rail expands around Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou, and work advances on a Shanghai–Ningbo cross-sea link.
Port, inland-waterway and logistics
Sea–river links, inland ports and rail access to industrial parks support an integrated logistics system; container sea–rail volume is expected to grow by more than 10% a year.
Energy transition
Offshore wind, solar, pumped storage and nuclear expansion sit alongside grid reinforcement. More than 75% of added generating capacity should be non-fossil.
Digital infrastructure
The plan combines general, intelligent, super- and quantum computing with 5G-A, 50G-PON, satellite internet, smart roads, smart waterways and connected-vehicle corridors.
Water and coastal resilience
Reservoirs, regional water transfers, rural supply, drainage, sea walls and coastal flood protection form a modern provincial water network.
Carbon and circularity
Carbon budgets and product-footprint data support a 2030 peak, 20 zero-carbon parks and energy savings above 15 million tonnes of standard coal during the five years.
Planning and delivery
How the outline is meant to become budgets, projects and annual work
Planning hierarchy
Provincial sector, regional and municipal plans must align with the provincial outline; major indicators are translated into annual plans and balanced across years.
Money and land follow the plan
Budgets, finance, site selection, land and sea-use approvals give priority to major strategies and projects identified in the outline.
Project-based implementation
Major programmes, actions, reforms and projects receive named implementation plans, task lists, milestones and province–city–county coordination.
Different tools for different targets
Binding public-service, environmental and safety tasks receive assigned responsibilities; expected economic and industrial targets rely more on policy, market and legal conditions.
Monitoring and evaluation
Annual monitoring, mid-term review and final evaluation can trigger policy adjustment and improvements to implementation.
Public oversight
Implementation is reported publicly and is subject to the provincial people’s congress, audit, disciplinary supervision and wider social scrutiny.
Primary sources
Full text, official visual guide and approval record
The public full-text page records approval by the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Congress on 17 January 2026.
Read the Chinese plan ↗An illustrated Chinese overview highlights the structure and major tasks of the outline.
View the official explainer ↗This English page is editorial guidance. The approved Chinese text remains authoritative.
Download the Chinese DOCX ↓The provincial congress record documents the review and approval process.