{"id":47639,"date":"2022-08-19T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/china-communist-party-ccp-national-congress-xi-jinping-delegates-explained-in-30-seconds"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:23:39","slug":"china-communist-partys-20th-national-congress-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47639","title":{"rendered":"China Communist party\u2019s 20th national congress explained \u2013 in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as president at the CCP\u2019s conference later this year<\/p>\n<p>Every five years, China\u2019s ruling Communist party (CCP) holds a key congress, where China watchers look for clues to the country\u2019s future. The 20th party congress will take place in Beijing before year-end. The date has not been announced, but analysts expect it to be held in mid-to-late October or early November.<\/p>\n<p>Selection for the delegates of the 20th Congress began in November last year. For ambitious CCP cadres, this is a crucial opportunity to join the elite circle of the party\u2019s ruling class. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/china-communist-party-ccp-national-congress-xi-jinping-delegates-explained-in-30-seconds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as president at the CCP\u2019s conference later this yearEvery five years, China\u2019s ruling Communist party (CCP) holds a key congress, where China watchers look for clues to the country\u2019s future. The 20th party c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47639\/revisions\/47668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}