China leaders outline future growth
Communist leaders convene to chart future of world’s second-largest economy in a bid to shift from export-driven model.
Published On 15 Oct 2010
China’s top Communist Party leaders have begun drawing up ways to handle their booming economy at an annual central committee meeting in the capital, Beijing.
They will approve a new five-year plan for the country’s 1.3 billion people, with key slogans emphasising ideas such as “socialist countryside” or a growing “harmonious society”.
Melissa Chan reports from Beijing on how China is seeking to establish a domestic consumer-driven economic model.