The biggest political event of the year is currently underway in Beijing China.
Beginning on October 16, at least 2,300 delegates from around China assemble in Tiananmen Square’s Great Hall of the People for the Chinese Communist Party’s week-long Party Congress.
After much behind-the-scenes deliberations among party elites, the choices for China’s top leadership for the next five years will be presented to the country.
The party will also review last term’s progress and set out its domestic and foreign policy goals for the next one. Decisions on both policy and personnel will be finalized officially in the spring.
Members of China's ruling Communist Party are meeting for the 20th Party Congress, a leadership reshuffle that happens twice a decade.
In recent years, these meetings have seen a streamlined transfer of power: the convention is for the top party leader, having completed two five-year terms, to pass the baton to a carefully chosen successor. But this year, Xi Jinping is expected to smash that precedent, taking on a third term as general secretary of the party and pitching China into a new era of strongman rule and uncertainty over when or how the country would see another leader.
As a result, the 20th Communist Party Congress-CPC is among the most consequential and closely watched party meetings in decades, and it will reveal much about the direction of the world's second-largest economy for the next five years.
China has changed dramatically under the leadership of Xi Jinping. In his address, Xi lauds his administration’s success on ending extreme poverty, taking measures to tackle climate change, curbing corruption, growing the economy.
Despite its initial missteps in containing the virus, China’s zero-Covid guidelines succeeded at limiting mortality from Covid-19 compared to many other countries.
China also transformed its foreign policy and became the world’s largest creditor with the Belt and Road Initiative, a massive global infrastructure and development program.
Importantly, Xi has promised to build a modern military.
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| Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the 20th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. |
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| Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives for the opening ceremony of the 20th Communist Party Congress in Beijing on October 16, 2022. |
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| The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. |
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| Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the 20th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. |
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