Top Chinese Leaders Call for Focus on ‘Six Stabilities’ as Economy Lags

Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a meeting of the Politburo, where top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials discussed the regime’s biggest challenges.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Center) and other new members of the Communist Party of China's Politburo Standing Committee (L-R) Wang Huning, Han Zheng, Li Zhanshu, Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, Zhao Leji meet press in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on October 25, 2017. WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images

In a meeting of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Politburo, where top Chinese Communist Party officials discussed the regime’s biggest challenges, the political body called for “six stabilities,” in the areas of employment, finance, foreign trade, foreign investment, domestic investment, and development targets, according to CCP mouthpiece Xinhua.

In Xinhua’s 860-character report about the Oct. 31 meeting, the word “stability” appears 16 times.