China’s Future Direction China Communist Party’s (CCP) 19th Party Congress • Encourage more social entities to carry out innovation and entrepreneurship. • Carry out vocational skills training, focusing on solving structural employment contradictions. • Provide comprehensive public employment services, encourage entrepreneurship of young people and migrant workers. • Enhance the support for SMEs' innovation and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. —CCP 19th Party Congress Two Centennial Goals “A moderately prosperous society” by 2021* A “strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist country” by 2049* *2021: the 100th anniversary of the party’s founding. *2049: the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.