Following the party line: A calendar of key Chinese government and Communist Party meetings

As China’s annual “Two Sessions” is now underway, attention is focusing on the 15th Five-Year Plan for 2026–2030. The calendar helps to understand how the draft outline reviewed at this year’s National People’s Congress will set the direction for the next policy cycle. In meetings over the past several months, signals of how the party-state intends to balance strategic priorities such as technological self-reliance, industrial upgrading and economic stabilization are revealed. This calendar provides a way to read those priorities before they are formalized by tracing what senior party-state bodies have already been discussing in Beijing.

It compiles open-source information on important regular party-state meetings, offering a broad overview of major political gatherings, summaries of key outcomes and a preview of upcoming agendas. Information published here is drawn from publicly accessible official documents and announcements.

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If any of the covered meetings have inadvertently been omitted, please kindly inform us by emailing [email protected]. Your assistance in ensuring the completeness and accuracy of this calendar is greatly appreciated.