China's Communist Party leadership's annual planning session concluded yesterday, yielding a new economic roadmap that the leadership says will address the country's widening wealth gap and reduce "outstanding contradictions" that have led to rampant social unrest, the New York Times reported. The 11th Five-Year Plan calls for "fast and stable economic growth" while building a "harmonious society", according to a party statement issued after the meeting. Hu Jintao, president and Communist Party chief, was expected to effect personnel changes at the annual plenum as part of an effort to undermine the power base of his predecessor Jiang Zemin, but the New York Times reported there was no indication that this feat occurred.
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