Country file of Communist China as pivotal Party Congress approaches

Record ID: 1692741

  • Title: Country file of Communist China as pivotal Party Congress approaches
  • Date: 10th October 2022
  • Summary: Beijing hosted a hugely successful Summer Olympic Games in 2008, illustrating China's arrival on the world stage. BEIJING, CHINA (FILE - AUGUST 24, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) EMBLEM OF THE BEIJING 2008 OLYMPICS PEOPLE STANDING AROUND EMBLEM
  • Embargoed: 24th October 2022 01:39
  • Keywords: China history party congress xi jinping
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  • Country: China
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00G008701011970RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: China's ruling Communist Party opens its 20th congress on Oct. 16 in a session that is likely to end with President Xi Jinping anointed for an unprecedented third, five-year term as the supreme leader, and a shuffle of personnel on the decision-making Politburo.
    About 2,300 party members from across the country will gather, mostly behind closed doors, at the cavernous Great Hall of the People on Beijing's Tiananmen Square for a once-in-five-year congress that typically runs for about one week.
    Xi will unveil his new leadership team, and the congress will also see a sweeping reshuffle of the top echelons of China’s power structure, putting in place people who will set policies – economic, diplomatic, security and social - for the next five years and beyond.
    Xi, 69, has steadily consolidated power since becoming party general secretary a decade ago, eliminating any known factional opposition to his rule. He is expected to exert largely unchallenged control over key appointments and policy directives at a congress that many China-watchers liken to a coronation.
    Despite headwinds that have buffeted his path to a third term - from a moribund economy, the COVID-19 pandemic and rare public protests to rising frictions with the West and tensions over Taiwan - Xi is poised to secure a mandate to pursue his grand vision for the "rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" for years to come.
    Since assuming power, Xi, the son of a communist revolutionary, has strengthened the party and its role across society and eliminated space for dissent.
    Under Xi, China has also become far more assertive on the global stage as a leader of the developing world and an alternative to the U.S.-led, post-World War Two order.
    (Production: Aleksander Solum, Phyllis Xu)
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