After Long Gap, China’s Ruling Elite to Gather for October Conclave

Chinese leader Xi Jinping (front C) attends the fourth plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 13, 2018. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images

BEIJING—Top officials of the Chinese Communist Party will hold a key meeting in October to discuss government policies and “perfecting” the country’s socialist system, state media said on Aug. 30, more than a year after the last was held.

Plenums, as they are formally called, are generally held every autumn, and are an opportunity for the party’s elite to map out policy priorities for the year ahead.