Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
Rather than focusing on individual projects or short-term targets,
China adopts a strategic long-term approach to developing its society and economy,
the five-year plans.
Since 1953, these guidelines have been setting the overall goals,
priorities and policy directions serving as the nation's defining road maps.
As we approach the end of the 14 five-year plan,
all eyes are on the new blueprint has been drawn up to guide the nation's next five years.
And more details will be unveiled later this week after an important meeting of the CPC Central Committee.
From the very first addition to the upcoming 15th cycle,
these documents have informed China's socio-economic development for more than 70 years.
How did it all start?
Why has the system not only survived but thrived in China?
And what will the next five-year plan mean for you?
These are just some questions to help understand the situation at this juncture and we'll do exactly that in this special edition of The Point.
With me, Liu Xin, coming to you from Beijing.
This is an opinion show on current affairs and I'm pleased to be joined from Los Angeles by William Lee,
Chief Economist and Executive Director at the Milken Institute and American Think Tank from Washington,
D.C. by Surab Gupta, Senior Asia Pacific International.