China's top leaders meet to plan next five years as coronavirus rebuilding begins

China's top leaders are meeting behind closed doors in Beijing on Monday to map out their economic and political agenda for the next five years, as the ruling Communist Party looks to capitalize on its containment of the coronavirus epidemic. President Xi Jinping, who also heads the Party, will join the members of the Central Committee, the Party's top decision-making body, to formulate the 14th Five-Year Plan, the vast policy framework by which China will be governed from 2021 to 2025. In an unusual step, the committee will also be drawing up a 'vision' for 2035, a long-term plan for the year which Xi has set as a deadline for China to 'basically achieve socialist modernization.'