Published: February 22nd, 2021,
Last updated: May 9th, 2023
Among the rituals of the Chinese Communist Party’s demonstration of power are the National People’s Congresses. Thousands of party officials will again applaud Xi Jinping in Beijing starting on March 5. At the center this year: the Five-Year Plan, in which the party leadership lays out political, economic, and social goals. The China.Table team will decipher the plans for you, which are presented in the usual unclear party prose. We start with Nico Beckert, who examines the chances of success for Xi’s plan of „dual circulation.“