Experts in economics as well as social and political studies to share their insights and expectations of the meeting and China's future reforms.
For Chu Jing, skyrocketing prices are making it harder and harder to buy a house in Beijing, although her dream of owning home here has never diminished.
If urbanization is an inevitable process for a country's development, leaders' understanding of what kind of city urban dwellers should have makes a great difference to whether the process will be conducive to the country's long-term sustainable development.
Urbanization has always characterized the evolution of contemporary China. From 1950 to 2005, China's urbanization rate rose to 41 percent.
Despite the consensus that urbanization is the inevitable path for China to further its progress toward a stronger and more prosperous nation, a roadmap is yet to be drawn up to ensure it is a healthy process conducive to sustainable development.
The prosperity of Chinese civilization is closely linked to its ecological environment, as the fall of Ancient Babylon was due to ecological damage.
What kind of urbanization is needed to make the country's economic growth sustainable and its social progress healthy?
With debts at local-government level mounting, China has to curb easy credit and open up the financial services sector, says S. P. Kothari.
This is because business cycles in China tend to be smaller as a result of frequent government interference. New trends and concerns can arise every three months.