For close watchers of Chinese politics, the country’s annual parliamentary meeting this year sent an important message: Beijing plans to boost investment in high technology, support the flagging economy and steel itself for a more hostile geopolitical environment.
The week-long session of the rubber stamp National People’s Congress, which wrapped up this week, was characterised by rhetoric painting China as an island of stability in a chaotic world while also celebrating artificial intelligence breakthroughs by Chinese companies such as DeepSeek.
“This is the ‘DeepSeek congress’,” said Kerry Brown, director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London.
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