President Xi Jinping of China on Wednesday pledged to build a “modern socialist country” for a “new era” that will be proudly Chinese and steadfastly ruled by the party but open to the world.
Xi’s who opened a critical Communist Party Congress, laid out a confident vision for a more prosperous China and its place in the international community, stressing the importance of wiping out corruption and curbing industrial overcapacity, income inequality and pollution.
He made clear there were no plans for political reform, but said China’s development had entered a “new era”, a phrase he used 36 times in the nearly three-and-a-half hour speech.
“With decades of hard work, socialism with Chinese characteristics has crossed the threshold into a new era,” he said.
The twice-a-decade congress, a week-long, mostly…
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