China’s Top Economic Planner Sets Out Main Tasks for 2022

The National Development and Reform Commission reiterated the government’s commitment to boosting support for the real economy, especially manufacturers and small and midsize enterprises, and preventing and resolving major risks. Photo: VCG

Ensuring the security of energy, food, and industrial supply chains and stabilizing prices will be among the main tasks for China’s economic planning agency next year, following a warning by the nation’s top political leaders that supply shocks are one of three main pressures facing the economy.

The commitments were set out by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) at a nationwide video meeting Saturday (link in Chinese) after a three-day conference held by China’s most senior policymakers set stability as the top priority for next year’s economic work.

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