The news that everyone was waiting for – but which came as a surprise – broke the day before the May vacations: The Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party will take place after all, in July. This was decided by the Politburo on Tuesday, the official news agency Xinhua reported. The Third Plenum, which is so important for the economic course of the next five to ten years, has been overdue since the fall of 2023. Autumn would have been the usual date for the meeting since the 1990s. But nothing happened, not even in February or March before the National People’s Congress.