{"id":53043,"date":"2023-03-02T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/china-two-sessions-explainer-what-is-it"},"modified":"2023-03-02T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:48:21","slug":"explainer-what-is-chinas-two-sessions-gathering-and-why-does-it-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53043","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: what is China\u2019s \u2018two sessions\u2019 gathering, and why does it matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual event led by Xi Jinping often delivers major policy announcements, with significant constitutional revisions also possible this year<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s annual \u201ctwo sessions\u201d meetings begin on Saturday, with major reforms and government appointments expected, as well as the final formalisation of Xi Jinping\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term\">precedent-busting third term as China\u2019s leader.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/china-two-sessions-explainer-what-is-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual event led by Xi Jinping often delivers major policy announcements, with significant constitutional revisions also possible this yearChina\u2019s annual \u201ctwo sessions\u201d meetings begin on Saturday, with major reforms and government appointments expected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-53043","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\/53043","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53043\/revisions\/53044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}