Meeting set to unveil package of key reforms

Third plenary session of 20th CPC Central Committee to open on July 15 in Beijing

The Communist Party of China will convene the third plenary session of its 20th Central Committee from July 15 to 18 in Beijing, a highly anticipated meeting that will unveil wide-ranging reforms.

The decision was made on Thursday at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which was chaired by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

In the past, the third plenums of the CPC Central Committee have often launched major reforms. For instance, during the Third Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee in 1978, former leader Deng Xiaoping ushered in policy changes that paved the way for decades of rapid economic growth and opening to the outside world.