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China's Communist Party to Hold Key Plenum Ahead of Trump Summit
Coded editorials under the pseudonym Zhong Caiwen reveal China’s focus on innovation, AI, and infrastructure investment to address economic challenges ahead of its 15th Five-Year Plan.
- Earlier this month, People's Daily launched a timed editorial campaign signed Zhong Caiwen, signaling a collective voice likely representing the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs.
- Facing weak demand and fiscal pressures, the essays reframe problems as structural and shift focus to upgrading, with the CCP planning a tech push in the 15th Five-Year Plan.
- It touts 3.6 trillion yuan in R&D and deeper research–industry integration, highlights China’s 5 million annual STEM graduates, and frames artificial intelligence as central to transformation.
- Beijing tightened export controls on rare earths, prompting Donald Trump, U.S. President, to threaten triple-digit tariffs and banning exports to U.S. defense industries starting Dec. 1.
- The Fourth Plenum meeting will review the 2026–2030 five-year plan and then issue a brief report; later this month, Beijing may release more details on AI, green energy, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing.
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Explainer: China's Communist Party holds a plenum on its next five-year plan. What does it mean?
The elite Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party will hold a closed-door meeting from Monday to Thursday to discuss, among other things, the country's 15th five-year development plan.
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Read Full ArticleWhat’s on the agenda as China’s ruling elite hold key political gathering?
Scheduled from Oct 20 to 23, the fourth plenum will see the upper echelons of China’s Communist Party review and endorse the next chapter of its national development blueprint, while potentially bringing clarity on the fate of sidelined senior officials.
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