Politburo meeting and announcement of Third Plenum in July

The Politburo met today for its April meeting, and the topic was to analyze and study the current economic situation. The meeting also decided that the Third Plenum will meet in July, and the “main agenda will include a report by the Political Bureau to the Central Committee, with a focus on studying further comprehensive deepening of reforms and advancing Chinese-style modernization”.

I am still working on today’s newsletter, but I thought you might find the readout, with my unofficial translation, helpful in the interim. There is lots to digest, always happy for feedback and suggestions as to what this all may mean.

The readout:

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to decide on convening the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. The meeting analyzed and studied the current economic situation and economic work and reviewed the "Opinions on Continuously and Deeply Promoting High-Quality Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta with Sev…