Senior leaders of the Communist Party opened a crucial Central Committee session Saturday focusing on ways to narrow a gap between rich and poor that has broadened dangerously in China during 25 years of sweeping market reforms.
More than 350 delegates from party organizations across the country are attending the four-day meeting, which is providing a high-level forum for a growing belief within the party that China’s swift economic liberalization has left too many people behind, particularly in the countryside, where more than half of China’s 1.3 billion inhabitants live.
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