{"id":996611,"date":"2026-03-06T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996611"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:53:25","slug":"china-unveils-five-year-plan-to-dominate-ai-tech-race-hikes-its-defence-budget-by-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/china-unveils-five-year-plan-to-dominate-ai-tech-race-hikes-its-defence-budget-by-7\/","title":{"rendered":"China unveils five-year plan to \u2018dominate\u2019 AI, tech race; hikes its defence budget by 7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Thursday unveiled major development targets in its five-year plan for the 2026-2030 period as a government work report was submitted to the country&#8217;s top legislature for deliberation. <\/p>\n<p>Hike in defence budget <\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the annual parliament meeting, Premier Li \u200bQiang praised China&#8217;s ability to withstand US President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff hikes, but said &#8220;multilateralism and free trade are under severe threat,&#8221; and announced 10 per cent increases in the defence budget, as well as in \u200cresearch and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Thursday unveiled major development targets in its five-year plan for the 2026-2030 period as a government work report was submitted to the country&#8217;s top legislature for deliberation. Hike in defence budget At the opening of the annual parliament meeting, Premier Li \u200bQiang praised China&#8217;s ability to withstand US President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff hikes, but said &#8220;multilateralism and free trade are under severe threat,&#8221; and announced 10 per cent increases in the defence budget, as well as in \u200cresearch and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}