The ruling Communist Party has just offered signals on politics, technology and the economy. How will the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan shape China and the world?
China’s high-speed rail system makes the 14-hour drive from Beijing to Shanghai just a five-hour trip. Credit: The U.S. Army Band, Creative Commons
In a familiar ritual for China watchers, the ruling Chinese Communist Party just held a high-level meeting to promulgate the country’s economic plan for the next five years, along with a series of aspirational goals for the next 15 years.
In the early reform period in the 1980s, such meetings were the obsession of the week for a small group of China specialists working outside of China. Today, however, the content of the economic plans for the second largest economy — and a rising superpo
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