Xi Jinping called in May 2024 for a renewed, deepened focus on ideological education. Political and ideological education curricula are to be blended at all levels, from elementary to college. These curricula will ‘foster virtue’ among students. Patriotism will be promoted through a new mechanism that organises themed public activities, ‘creating a social atmosphere in which people look up to heroes, pay tribute to martyrs, and strive to become pioneers’...
Winning food security via boosting staple grain (corn, wheat, rice) output is a steady theme—‘always the Pary’s top priority’—under the Xi administration. But the PRC lost more arable land in 2009–19 than in 1957–96. in the decade before 2019, 7.5 million ha of arable land was lost, equivalent to the total area of Ireland, while productivity on remaining farmland sank.
A new push for ‘patient capital’ is underway. It was identified as essential to ‘building a financial power’ at the October 2023 Central Financial Work Conference. The Politburo then put its imprimatur on in April 2024, and a State Council Executive Meeting clarified its direction on 7 June.
Third Plenums are set pieces of Party policy: the 20th will hear and pass a ‘Decision on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Advancing Chinese Modernisation’. This Third Plenum's decision echoes an earlier one (2013), which launched Xi Jinping’s 习近平 vision of a market economy guided by the state.