{"id":202,"date":"2007-10-15T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T09:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2007-11-05T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T09:56:57","slug":"chinese-party-congress-seeks-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/chinese-party-congress-seeks-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese party congress seeks improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five year Chinese Communist Party Congress, taking place over 5 days, was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/7044418.stm\">opened by President Hu Jintao<\/a>.\u00a0 While the event is carefully orchestrated it is refreshing to note self criticism which one would hardly expect from US or European political leaders.\u00a0 Hu drew attention in particular to the problems of corruption and local governance, many of which have been reported in the international media, such as the conviction of the head of the Agriculture and Food Ministry earlier this year.\u00a0 Other themes were Promoting &#8216;social harmony&#8217;, &#8216;Scientific development&#8217;, and Building a &#8216;well-off society&#8217;. \u00a0 The pragmatic approach of China&#8217;s government will continue to yield dividends and underpin stable, rapid economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five year Chinese Communist Party Congress, taking place over 5 days, was opened by President Hu Jintao.\u00a0 While the event is carefully orchestrated it is refreshing to note self criticism which one would hardly expect from US or European political leaders.\u00a0 Hu drew attention in particular to the problems of corruption and local governance, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/chinese-party-congress-seeks-improvement\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese party congress seeks improvement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-3g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}