China’s ruling Communist Party is holding its most important meeting of the year between Oct. 26 and 29. Known as the fifth plenum, the closed-door gathering of hundreds of top officials is expected to focus on strengthening the party’s ideology and governance, including its anti-corruption campaign, rather than the economic policies that would typically dominate a fifth plenum.
The meeting could also provide clarity around which officials have been purged from the Central Committee and China’s military leadership in recent years, while reshaping the party’s senior ranks ahead of next year’s party congress.
President Xi Jinping
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