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China’s third plenum: tight security surrounds crucial meeting amid big policy questions
- Heavy police presence in China’s capital; Beijing bans low-altitude aircraft and installs security personnel at subway stations and bridges
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China’s ruling Communist Party has started its third plenum with tightened security measures in Beijing as it charts China’s economic and social development direction for the next decade.
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The main focus of the four-day meeting of more than 370 full and alternate members of the party’s Central Committee is expected to decide how to reach the country’s interim industrial and technological goals by 2035, and ways to cope with the economic challenges facing the country.
Confirming the opening of the plenum in Beijing, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday morning that President Xi Jinping, who is the General Secretary of the party, delivered the Politburo’s work report to the plenary session and presented a draft document on the Central Committee’s decision on “further comprehensively deepening reform and advancing Chinese modernisation”.
The one-paragraph Xinhua report on Monday morning did not offer any further details of the meeting.
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