China's Communist Party to hold top-level meeting in October

China's Communist Party will hold its fifth plenary session from October 26 to 29 in Beijing, according to state news agency Xinhua. The meeting, which will be attended by around 200 members of the Central Committee, an elite party body, is expected to affirm the party's key policy objectives.

The session will study several major issues concerning the sustained advancement of full and rigorous party self-governance. This meeting is one of the last times the committee is expected to convene before the next national party congress in autumn 2027.

The previous gathering, in October 2025, focused on the economy and China's 15th Five-Year Plan for development. The dates for the upcoming meeting were set at a meeting of the 21-member Politburo, chaired by President Xi Jinping.

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