In a series of closed-door meetings in the capital, top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials hashed out the country’s next five-year plan — and even drew up a “vision” for 2035, a long-term proposal for the year which President Xi Jinping has set as a deadline for China to “basically achieve socialist modernization.”
Whatever is agreed at the plenum, by a tiny cohort of leaders, will shape policy for the entire country of 1.3 billion people, implemented at all levels by Communist Party bureaucrats, state-controlled enterprises, and the all-powerful security state.
This kind of long-term…
