Participants navigated a string of security checks before entering the hall, where a giant hammer-and-sickle emblem hung over the stage on which top leaders are due to be seated. – AFP
A heavy police presence was in place around Beijing early Sunday as authorities prepared for the week-long Congress.
Xi walked onstage to thunderous applause from the roughly 2,300 delegates who had gathered at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People for the event.
A fleet of buses whisked journalists and other attendees to a virtually empty Tiananmen Squa NBA直播 re and into the Great Hall of the People.
BEIJING, Oct 16, 2022 (AFP) – Chinese President Xi J 足球直播 inping on Sunday hailed Hong Kong’s transition from “chaos to governance” while condemning what he said was interference in Taiwan.
Xi lauded Hong Kong’s transition from “chaos to governance”, while vowing a “major struggle against separatism and interference” in the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
If picked as party leader for another five-year term as expected, Xi is almost certain to be elected president at the annual meeting of China’s National People’s Congress in March.
Xi on Sunday also hailed the Communist Party’s rule and defended its Covid policies as he opened a five-yearly Congress at which thousands of hand-picked delegates are set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term.
“The situation in Hong Kong has achieved a major transition from chaos to governance,” Xi told Communist Party delegates at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, while vowing a “major struggle against separatism and interference” in the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
At the start of what is expected to be a lengthy speech, Xi also insisted China’s Covid policies — which are still placing heavy curbs on people’s lives 英超 — were for their safety.
Should everything go to plan for Xi, the 69-year-old will be reconfirmed as the party’s general secretary after the week-long meeting, cementing his position as China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
He said the policies had “protected people’s safety and health to the highest degree and achieved significant positive results”.
Xi also focused on two of China’s most sensitive security and sovereignty issues at the start of speech — in relation to Hong Kong, after democracy protests were crushed there, and Taiwan.
In his opening address the leader hailed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and said the Congress was taking place at a “critical moment” for the country.
A heavy police presence was in place around Beijing early Sunday as authorities prepared for the week-long Congress.
Xi walked onstage to thunderous applause from the roughly 2,300 delegates who had gathered at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People for the event.
A fleet of buses whisked journalists and other attendees to a virtually empty Tiananmen Squa NBA直播 re and into the Great Hall of the People.
BEIJING, Oct 16, 2022 (AFP) – Chinese President Xi J 足球直播 inping on Sunday hailed Hong Kong’s transition from “chaos to governance” while condemning what he said was interference in Taiwan.
Xi lauded Hong Kong’s transition from “chaos to governance”, while vowing a “major struggle against separatism and interference” in the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
If picked as party leader for another five-year term as expected, Xi is almost certain to be elected president at the annual meeting of China’s National People’s Congress in March.
Xi on Sunday also hailed the Communist Party’s rule and defended its Covid policies as he opened a five-yearly Congress at which thousands of hand-picked delegates are set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term.
“The situation in Hong Kong has achieved a major transition from chaos to governance,” Xi told Communist Party delegates at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, while vowing a “major struggle against separatism and interference” in the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
At the start of what is expected to be a lengthy speech, Xi also insisted China’s Covid policies — which are still placing heavy curbs on people’s lives 英超 — were for their safety.
Should everything go to plan for Xi, the 69-year-old will be reconfirmed as the party’s general secretary after the week-long meeting, cementing his position as China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
He said the policies had “protected people’s safety and health to the highest degree and achieved significant positive results”.
Xi also focused on two of China’s most sensitive security and sovereignty issues at the start of speech — in relation to Hong Kong, after democracy protests were crushed there, and Taiwan.
In his opening address the leader hailed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and said the Congress was taking place at a “critical moment” for the country.