Tighter central political control, more aggressive state-owned conglomerates and investment strategies in tune with foreign policy are the new shape of the Chinese business landscape following the most recent public rounds of Communist Party and state policymaking.
Attention has focused in recent months on Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping's personal power, after his reshuffle last October of the Communist Party's standing committee and the confirmation in March by the National People's Congress — China's nominal legislature — that Xi will not be limited to two presidential terms as his predecessors were.