Analysis: "two sessions" provide clues on China's medium-term development strategies

Tourists visit the Bund in Shanghai, east China, Jan. 6, 2020. (Photo by Wang Xiang/Xinhua)

BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- If you want to have a better understanding of the world's second-largest economy, then you should look at its five-year plan for economic and social development.

The year 2020 is a juncture where China will wrap up the plan for the 2016-2020 period and prepare for its next master plan. Such a policy blueprint usually sets forth China's strategic intentions and defines its major objectives, tasks and measures for economic and social development.