Summer meeting will set five-year plan goals

Setting a target for economic development over the next five years is expected to be high on the agenda at the upcoming annual meeting of CPC leaders in Hebei province.

Since the Mao Zedong era, it has been a tradition for leaders of the Communist Party of China to attend a closed-door meeting in the coastal town of Beidaihe in the summer.

Chi Fulin, president of the China Institute of Reform and Development, expected the Beidaihe meeting to make decisions related to the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) that "meet the demands of China's development, alleviate the short-term downward pressure and have a great impact in the middle and long term".