China Postpones Key Economic Policy Meeting Due to Covid Spike
- Annual confab usually features setting annual economic targets
- Officials likely worried over adding to Covid spread: analyst
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China is delaying a closely watched economic policy meeting that was due to start this week, after Covid infections surged in Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter.
There’s no set timetable for when the Central Economic Work Conference, usually attended by President Xi Jinping, will be rescheduled, the people said, asking not to be named discussing confidential information.