The proposed 13th Five-Year Plan features a number of new concepts, notions and measures, which shed light on trends in China's economic and social development in the coming five years. 

Three major strategies: These include a cyber power and national big data strategy, an innovation-driven development strategy, and a strategy to boost food supply by increasing farmland productivity with science and technology. 

Five major projects: These include a major public facility and infrastructure project, an urban underground pipeline network renovation project, international Big Science plans and projects, an industrial foundation consolidation project, and a smart manufacturing project. 

Four focuses of balanced development: These include regional coordination, urban-rural coordination, a balance between economic growth and cultural progress, and the integration of the development of the economy with that of national defense.  

Five initiatives on green development: These initiatives focus on setting up uniform and well-regulated national pilot zones for ecological progress, issuing a national zoning blueprint and a catalog of main farming areas as well as key eco-friendly functional zones, promoting an energy revolution, implementing the national energy conservation action plan, and ensuring all industrial pollutant emissions are up to the standard. 

A roadmap for targeted poverty alleviation: This roadmap focuses on relocating residents from areas where they are unable to make a decent living owing to insufficient resources, providing a safety net to those who have lost their ability to work, and exploring a property income-supported poverty alleviation system.