BRUSSELS - The upcoming decisions from China's highest leadership on deep reforms to the nation's cultural system are expected to facilitate the rising power's dialogue with the rest of the world.

Scholars and experts in Europe made the comments ahead of Saturday's opening of the four-day annual plenary session of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, which will discuss cultural reform.

Since 1978, China has carried out economic and political reforms, but culture has not been that high on the agenda.