China Hints That Leaders Are Holding Annual Beidaihe Conclave

China Hints That Leaders Are Holding Annual Beidaihe Conclave
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 3, 2016. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
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BEIJING—Chinese state media has given the first hint that an annual conclave of senior leaders is occurring at the resort of Beidaihe, through a report that says the head of the regime’s Organization Department had visited government workers who are vacationing there.

Traditionally, top party leaders visit the seaside town every summer in an unofficial retreat to discuss personnel moves and policy ideas behind closed doors.