From Reuters:
With 70 million members, China’s ruling Communist Party is bigger than most nations. Yet when its Central Committee meets on Sunday a handful of leaders will spell out the country’s political agenda in tightly guarded secrecy.
The plenum of some 350 senior officials will mark a big step in party General Secretary Hu Jintao’s campaign to cement his power and policies at a critical party congress next year.
“The most important priority for the Plenum is to set the tone for the 17th Congress,” Pei Minxin, an expert on Chinese politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, told Reuters. [Full text]
