Last year’s Third Plenum tells us about the priorities of this year’s NPC

As every year at the annual meeting of China’s highest legislative body, the National People’s Congress (NPC), much attention will be paid to the government’s target for economic growth and concrete regulatory decisions with more immediate impact.

MERICS Lead Analyst Nis Grunberg argues that the NPC is also an object lesson in Beijing’s ability to block out external events and short-term challenges to implement long-term goals through an easily confusing cascade of party, state and mixed party-state institutions.

In his analysis, Grünberg discusses five long-term goals outlined last year at the five-yearly Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee that deserve particular scrutiny.

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