ICYMI - the dates for the October meeting of China's leaders has been set. Next 5 year plan to be unveiled.

China is about to go on a week-long holiday:

• China's extended Golden week holiday begins on Wednesday

Later in the month will be the most important annual political meeting in China, the Fifth Plenum of the Nineteenth Communist Party Congress:

• dates are October 26 to 29
• to be held Beijing
• plenum will set a blueprint for the 14th five-year plan
• will also present an economic strategy called the “2035 vision”

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Background to this meeting. The plenum will be attended by more than 300 full and alternate members of China's Communist Party's Central Committee.

The five-year plan will lay out the blueprint for economic and social development targets for the period.