BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Communist Party leadership will begin a four-day, closed-door meeting on Monday to chart the country’s economic policy for the next five years, seeking to sustain its ascent at a time of mounting trade tensions with the U.S.
Beijing is likely to release an outline of its next five-year plan after that meeting, but the full plan and its development targets won’t be released until March 2026.
Here are key details to look out for:
GROWTH TARGETThe next five-year plan is unlikely to unveil a specific economic growth target for 2026-2030, in line with the previous document which omitted the goal for the first time.
The move was praised at the time as something that could unshackle Beijing and local governments from being wedded to unsustainably high growth, at the