China - mission statements

Five-Year Plans, set by secret session of a Central Committee, may seem a strangely old-fashioned Stalinist method of running the new China. Are they now more like strategy reports for the corporate board. The aims of the 11th plan are expected to include a move towards "green GDP" growth and measures to tackle the widening gap between rich and poor. Both of these are noted by many commentators as threatening social order and the Communist Parties grip on power more from Reuters...