(Reuters) -The elite Central Committee of China’s ruling Communist Party will hold a closed-door meeting from Monday to Thursday to discuss, among other things, the country’s 15th five-year development plan.

The meeting, known as a plenum, is the fourth since the 2022 Party Congress. Here is what it all means:

WHAT’S A PLENUM?

The Central Committee is the largest of the party’s top decision-making bodies, and it typically holds seven plenums between congresses, with the fifth traditionally deliberating on five-year plans.

But due to an unexplained nine-month-long delay in the third plenum until July 2024, the party is expected to now review the 2026-2030 plan during the fourth, on October 20-23.

To prevent leaks, plenum attendees are traditionally confined to the venue for the duratio

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