In order to sustain the close to one billon people expected to be living in cities by 2030, China will be required to meet the tremendous demand for access to resources, education, healthcare, and increasingly, affordable housing for migrant workers, writes Gregory Poulin.

He Weiwen writes that the 3rd Plenary Session has provided a broad blueprint for China’s reforms and development for the next few years and will have profound implications for China and the world.

After months of hype, China watchers the world over are underwhelmed by the immediate outcomes of the just-concluded Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, writes David Shambaugh.

For the first time since the 1980s, Beijing is redefining China’s grand strategy.

On the eve of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, some observers have produced a new bout of predictions about very big breakthroughs in the upcoming period of reform. However, many of these predictions will probably prove unrealistic, writes Zhu Lijia.

Outside China, the prevalent view among business leaders is that President Xi Jinping’s new administration has consolidated its power and acquired enough authority to push through far-reaching economic reforms. Unfortunately, this view is both too sanguine and naïve.

One has full reason to expect that the CPC Central Committee’s third plenum will inject new force into China’s development by reshaping its economy and lend a strong push to the world economy in its recovery, writes Chen Qun.

Chinese leaders have an unenviable problem--how to sustain its explosive economic rise. They have a dragon by the tail as they try to manage economic growth as it shows signs of sputtering, writes Tom Watkins.

The upcoming Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, slated for November 9-12, has become a hot topic in the media. It is expected that future reforms will mainly focus on four aspects, writes Ding Yifan.

The pessimistic outlook on China’s Third Plenum fails to capture the leadership’s momentum, sense of urgency, and collective understanding of the need to embark on big, bold and broad reforms to gain public support before it’s too late, write Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen.