Read the CCP's policy priorities: A glimpse into the black box of China’s policymaking process

Alexander Davey

Report

Mar 05, 2025

Party and State

MERICS Media Briefing: National People's Congress 2025

Video

Feb 27, 2025

Party and State

Last year’s Third Plenum tells us about the priorities of this year’s NPC

Nis Grünberg

Comment

Mar 03, 2025

A hostess gives a final check on the reports placed on tables ahead of the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024.

Topics

EU-China

Party and State

Geopolitics

Climate and Environment

Industrial Policy and Technology

China’s fragile online spaces for debate

Between entertainment and heavy state guidance, citizens raise social concerns and create new communities

Katja Drinhausen, Christina Sadeler, Prof. Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Report

Feb 21, 2025

Chinese Debates

The German elections as seen from China, with Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Podcast

Mar 07, 2025

Too little, too late? – Demographic and structural challenges hobble China’s pension system

Comment

Mar 05, 2025

Controlled diversity – social media in China with Kristin Shi-Kupfer and Katja Drinhausen

Podcast

Mar 04, 2025

Calendar of key party and state meetings

China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, is currently in session to greenlight the government’s overall policy and economic direction for the next 12 months. Understand the cadre mindset by looking at what China’s top party and state officials have been discussing over the past eight months. The policymaking process between last year’s major Third Plenum and this year’s National People’s Congress has been jam-packed.

CCP Calendar of key party and state meetings

China bets on a low-cost reset with Europe + EU-China trade tensions

François Chimits, Grzegorz Stec

MERICS Briefs

Feb 20, 2025

EU-China

The German elections as seen from China, with Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Podcast

Mar 07, 2025

"China in 25": Tariffs and transatlantic challenges

Podcast

Feb 19, 2025

MERICS Forum: Transatlantic coordination on China under Trump

Comment

Feb 06, 2025

Jacob Gunter

Lead Analyst

Geopolitics

"Xi is preparing the nation for a long battle with the US and its allies; major social or economic reforms seem less likely.”

Handelsblatt (in German)

Mar 05, 2025

his combined photo shows China launching the world's first quantum satellite on top of a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 16, 2016.

China’s long view on quantum tech has the US and EU playing catch-up

Antonia Hmaidi, Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Report

Dec 14, 2024

Quantum

US-China competition could lead to sub-par quantum tech standards

Comment

Dec 13, 2024

Green technology

Policymakers take first steps to curb overinvestment in solar manufacturing

Comment

Dec 13, 2024

Semiconductors

Export control breach reveals China’s continuing struggle to produce high-end semiconductors

Comment

Dec 13, 2024

Call for applications for our MERICS European China Talent Program (ECTP)

MERICS is dedicated to the mission of “Getting China right”. In this spirit, the ECTP will again gather a selected group of approximately 15 European early career scholars and professionals in Berlin. Apply until March 30.

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