China's leaders gather for key strategy session as challenges grow

Thousands of delegates from across China will convene for a carefully orchestrated affair in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, largely to rubber-stamp decisions by the ruling Communist Party under leader Xi Jinping. The nation's 15th Five-Year Plan -- a blueprint for the world's second-largest economy through to 2030 -- will also be released. With most of the decisions already made, the Two Sessions are mainly a talking shop with little room for spontaneity or off-the-cuff comments. However...