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ARTICLE · 25 OCTOBER 2017

China's 19th National Party Congress

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The report lauded China's economic and other achievements during the past five years while stressing the need for continued struggle under Party leadership to raise China even higher.

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Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping opened the Party's quinquennial 19th National Congress on October 18 with a clearly delivered, 86-page, three-and-a-half hour report entitled "Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects and Strive for the Great Success of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era." The report lauded China's economic and other achievements during the past five years while stressing the need for continued struggle under Party leadership to raise China even higher. The emphasis throughout was on leadership by a unified, centralized Party free of corruption in all spheres of life throughout the country.

The theme of the report, "Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era," links Xi with Deng Xiaoping while simultaneously distinguishing his leadership from Deng's redefinition of Party ideology as "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics." Xi sets "realization of the China

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