State Council of the People's Republic of China

Between 2015 and 2016, he even served as the British Chair, personally leading talks for what was called the UK-China High-Level People-to-People Dialogue Mechanism.

And his counterpart on the Chinese side was none other than Liu Yandong, who was the vice premier of the State Council of the PRC at the time.

As you all know, before joining the Politburo, Liu Yandong had long served as the head of the United Front Work Department of the CCP.

In 2015, after one of the high-level dialogues between the two sides concluded, China and the UK reached an agreement to promote joint television production projects between the two countries.

The Chinese Communist government is still trying to correct demographic decline through programs that subsidize the high cost of having children.

Last week, for example, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese State Council, roughly equivalent to a presidential cabinet, recommended building a fertility-friendly society with more financial support for maternity care, preschool care, and, of course, school tuition.

The Chinese State Council also suggested equalizing services for rural Chinese to move to big cities because the current household registration system bars them from some of the benefits that native city dwellers insist on.

It's certainly an idea, a key story to keep your eye on.

Make no mistake about it.

Uh, let me do my first one.

Um, This one sounds really boring because it's about a Chinese state council general office's 23rd of October, which is basically, I think it's one day or two days ago.

So this is like two days ago.

So this is really kind of hot off the press.

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super interesting in

china it's not that you have to do it but if it's come out from you know the top level and this has come out from the state council general office which is the top level this is basically saying like these are the things you need to do if you want to succeed so they will go down to provincial level they'll go down to city level etc which if you

don't know the Chinese model you probably don't understand but effectively the party is huge and if you're part of the party that's in a provincial level you read this and you're like right that's what I need to spend my time focusing on so I just go

How so?

The state council recently issued a directive containing 18 specific tasks across six areas.

And their overarching explicitly stated goal is to create employment friendly AI.

Employment friendly AI.

And we examined the harsh realities of the hardware supply chain, right, where chip makers like CamberCon are seeing record profits but sluggish cash flow, revealing that software integration and system efficiency are the new industry bottlenecks.

Right.

And finally, we saw how telecom giants are pivoting to spatio-temporal intelligence to digitally map and manage everything from factory floors to smart cockpits, all while the state council implements venture capital pushes and mandatory collaboration frameworks to ensure this automation remains employment-friendly.

It is just a staggering amount of transformation happening all at once.

It also says non-fossil fuel sources should provide 50% of China's electricity by the end of this decade.

And the Chinese State Council's carbon peaking action plan goes further, requiring non-fossil energy to provide 25% of total energy consumption by 2030, which means the whole shebang, industry, transport, heat, the lot.

That is an extraordinary goal.

with yet another important caveat.

Sure, Fred.

I think a lot of people look back at 2015 when China's State Council announced its Made in China 2025 industrial plan as really the beginning of a new concerted effort to move its manufacturing industries higher up the value chain and also to reduce import dependence for a lot of the higher value added components used within their factories.

That's interesting, the last point.

So you're saying – because China often imported a lot of components from the rest of the world, the advanced components, and then simply assembled them.

By taking advantage of the CCP's organizational principle that the entire membership of the party is subordinate to the Central Committee, Jiang Zemin passed orders to set up the Office for Dealing with the Falun Gong Issue in the Central Committee on June 7th, 1999, the 610 Office.

The 610 Office technically reports to the State Council, but in fact, it is a party organization that is allowed to exist outside of the established framework of the state and central government.

It is free from any legal restriction, any regulation, and all national policies.

It is an all-powerful organization very similar to Nazi Germany's Gestapo with powers far above and beyond the legal and judiciary systems.