text:  Meantime, the National Weather Service expects this heat wave to linger in the region until next week. For NPR News, I'm Esther Quintanilla in Exeter in California's Central Valley. And now going off into our Asia-Pacific here on HPR, all things considered. I'm Dave Lawrence in China's Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party holding a closed meeting talking about the future. HPR's Bill Dorman pulling back the curtain on that in today's Asia Minute.