Sydney | China has pledged to become less reliant on foreign technology and raise its per capita GDP to the level of moderately developed countries under a five-year economic blueprint which focuses on making the world's second-largest economy less dependent on American imports.

Against the backdrop of next week's US presidential election where both candidates have promised to maintain a hard line on Beijing, more than 200 of China's leaders met this week to set economic goals as far out as 2035.