China’s Science Ministry Sets Six Priorities for 15th Five-Year Plan Push

The framing matters more than the six categories: original, leading-edge research as the "main direction" and faster self-reliance in high-level technology as the "central task" signal that basic research is being folded into a self-sufficiency agenda rather than pursued as an open-ended scientific goal. For crypto and RWA markets, the practical read is indirect — this is a policy signal about where Chinese state R&D capacity and capital will concentrate, not a digital-asset mandate. Whether the self-reliance emphasis translates into concrete funding and cross-border research openness is the open question.