What Is a Party Congress in China?

A party congress in China is an opportunity for the Chinese leadership to telegraph not only its policy priorities but also who are going to be running this very important and dynamic country. They happen every five years or at least they have since the end of the Cultural Revolution so obviously they're very important. At the 20th party Congress for example Xi Jinping sketched out a fairly dark picture of both those elements I think in his political report. For example long standing catchphrases that signaled that the Politburo not only saw peace and economic development as the dominant theme of the global order were both gone, he says.