After China's Fourth Plenum

24 October 2025, China, Peking: Wang Wentao (left to right), Minister of Commerce of China, sits next to Zheng Shanjie, Chairman of the National Reform and Development Commission of China, Jiang Jinquan, Director of the Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the People's Congress of China, Han Wenxiu, Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs of China and Yin Hejun, Minister of Science and Technology of China. The Chinese Communist Party had previously concluded its Fourth Plenum, a meeting lasting several days at which the upcoming five-year plan was discussed this year. Photo: Johannes Neudecker/dpa (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)