Beijing’s Coded Editorials Reveal Big Economic Plans

People’s Daily has laid out an optimistic scheme for industrial transformation.

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On Sept. 30, as Chinese citizens prepared for a “ Golden Week ” holiday, People’s Daily , the flagship newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), launched a carefully timed editorial campaign . For several consecutive days, its second page, reserved for authoritative commentaries, carried essays under the banner “Special Series on China’s Economy Under the Guidance of Xi Jinping Economic Thought.” Each was signed with the pseudonym Zhong Caiwen.

In China’s political communication system, such pseudony

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