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Its main agenda—the approval of recommendations for China’s 15th five-year plan—marked a departure from precedent, as past Fourth Plenums have typically focused on party governance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Third Plenums have a special place in Chinese history; the December 1978 Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress kicked off the “reform and opening up” policy.

From New York Times • May 13, 2013

Elegant Vacuum; serenely looking down upon all Plenums and Entities, as low and poor to his serene Chimeraship and _Non_entity laboriously attained!

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

Elegant Vacuum; serenely looking down upon all Plenums and Entities as low and poor to his serene Chimeraship and Nonentity laboriously attained!

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas