Last mentioned: Mar 19, 2026
Carbon Peak Deadline
Target date for China to reach its maximum annual carbon emissions.
Market Expansion
Full integration of steel, cement, and chemical sectors into the carbon market.
15th FYP Unveiled
Transition to total carbon emission control and NQPF industrial strategy.
14th FYP Adoption
Focus on reducing energy intensity and launching the national carbon market.
Dual Carbon Pledge
Xi Jinping announces targets for 2030 carbon peak and 2060 neutrality at the UN.
China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) marks a historic shift from energy intensity targets to a total carbon emission control system. Under President Xi Jinping’s 'New Quality Productive Forces' vision, the plan accelerates the green transition while balancing energy security.
This page surfaces every story mentioning National People's Congress (NPC) across our climate coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running climate beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where National People's Congress (NPC) was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |