The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China's Central Committee will be held in November, as announced by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Aug 27.

On July 18, 2013, Detroit became the largest United States city to file for bankruptcy. Following news of the Motor City’s financial problems, Michael Justin Lee offers a Chinese model to help resurrect the once bustling manufacturing center.

Zhang Monan writes that China’s new round of reform will bring dividends generated by activated domestic consumption, institutional reform and a new round of globalization.

As China’s new leadership prepares to undertake economic reforms, Dan Redford lays out how income inequality has gone from being an economic issue to a social issue as the presence of migrants and low-educated citizens becomes more prominent in economic hubs.

Years of mounting cash deficits and long-term debts have led one of America’s greatest cities to ruin. Today, as the City of Detroit seeks to dig itself out of bankruptcy, Detroit native Tom Watkins encourages China to take a good look at the result of poor city management.

As recent reports suggest the Renminbi yuan is going through its most active role in the global trading market in history, Yi Xianrong advises against overestimating what this means for the yuan’s globalization. Yi suggests accelerating the pace at which the yuan is open to the outside world and establishing an effective exchange-rate pricing mechanism before globalization can be discussed.

China’s Central Committee will gather later this year for a session that will shape the outlook of the global economy. Despite hopes that China will announce a rebalancing strategy, Jonathan Holslag believes Beijing will continue its high export policies.

Commenting on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Chen Xiangyang explains the significance of Xi’s remarks highlighting the need for cooperation to ensure stable economic growth across the globe, rather than focusing on the economic crises facing rising and falling powers.

Detroit's decline demonstrates what happens when laws of economic and social development are broken, writes Ding Yifan. It is a lesson that China should learn to accomplish its economic restructuring without repeating Detroit's mistakes.

China’s economic slowdown has emerging economies around the world concerned that slowing growth will impact trade and investment. Specifically, many Latin American markets worry they will be negatively impacted by a decrease in exports to China.