July Politburo meeting read-out

This report was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Plus, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist. It is for reference only, and is not the official English version of the original Chinese document. Alibaba owns the SCMP. [Image text:] This report was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus,then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist. It is for reference only, and is not the official English version of the original Chinese document. Alibaba owns the SCMP. READ THE ORIGINAL The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting, deciding to convene the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central CommitteeIntroduction The meeting analysed and studied the current economic situation and economic work.General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping presided over the meeting The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convened a meeting on July 30, deciding that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 2Oth Central Committee of Introduction: China's 21-member, decision-making Politburo,chaired by President Xi Jinping,meets monthly in Beijing Meetings in July typically focus on evaluating economic performance in the first half and set the policy tone for the remainder of the year.This month's. meeting took place after China announced economic growth in the second quarter slowed to4.3 per cent, down from the 5.0 per cent recorded in the first quarter and below the full-year target growth range of4.5-5.0 per cent Investors had also been looking to the meeting for signs that Beijing may roll out economic stimulus,following a 60-billion-yuan market intervention