The Ninth Party Congress characterized the past five years as a urning point in the country's comprehensive development\ and, on that basis, unveiled a new Five-Year Plan centered on strengthening the three revolutions—ideological, technological, and cultural. In the socio-cultural sphere, the Congress called for expanding education and healthcare in conjunction with its regional development policy, while underscoring the direction of cultural policy by emphasizing culture's role as the ideological and cultural vanguard.