China's economic planning has become the latest beneficiary of a makeover from a chirpy theme song complete with a psychedelic music video.

Xinhua News Agency posted an animated clip that explained the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), a national roadmap being discussed at the ongoing session of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, before it is submitted to the top legislature in March.

In the slickly produced three-minute video, four cartoon characters travel through a mint-green and fuchsia dreamscape atop lily pads, China's Great Wall and a Volkswagen bus.