Q&A: China's Third Plenum  A female migrant construction worker
walks towards her dormitory after a shift at a residential
construction site in Shanghai on 6 August 2013 Economic reform
and a widening wealth gap are key issues for China's leaders  As
China's top leaders prepare for the Third Plenum, the BBC looks
at why the meeting matters and how it came to be such a
significant economic and political event.  Q: What is the party
plenum?  The Chinese Communist Party is the world's largest
political party. Its constitution stipulates that the party
holds a National Congress every five years. Delegates gather in
Beijing to attend it. One of their jobs is to elect the Central
Committee, the party's highest decision-making body, and its
anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Discipline Commission.
Each Central Committee is numbered sequentially, adopting the
number of the congress that elects it. As the congress which was
convened last November was the 18th, so the 18th Central
Committee is now in office.  Its 3