2) CHINADAILY Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Vv I E Ww S 1 | G Five years on Robert Lawrence Kuhn Historical starti int fe t f devel ir he 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, — | which begins on October 18, will (I yey set the leadership and establish | | | | the policies for the next five years, at least. | | vo While Party national congresses are | | i always seminal events in the political life | | of the country, there is reason to expect | | | that this congress will have even greater s | | and longer-reaching impact. 1 - The context of the 19th . | CPC National Congress is \ | | < the grand vision for Chi- \ \ | es — napresented by CPC Se LJ => Central Committee Gen- om eral Secretary Xi Jinping, “~ — who is now the “core” of “the CPC Central Com- Robert mittee and of the whole Lawrence Kuhn Party” It is an epic narra- . tive of what China has Sxg remarkably achieved, what China has yet to Cs 74 do, and what China envisages as necessary fs =f to become a great nation. = — == Xi’s grand vision is famously expressed as SD = f a | Vy | { S| “the Chinese Dream’; described as “the nan CF | | | i great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’, | A which has personal and national implica- § tions. It is specified by two overarching goals: the two centenary goals of establish- ‘ fe 1 ing a moderately prosperous society by i LJ A 2020 — the 100th anniversary of the CPC is l =] Af Bi 2021 — and establishing China as a “fully I o\ae) 4 | l| Bi modernized, socialist nation” by the 100th SE |= 7 anniversary of the People’s Republic of Chi- fon fF ‘io (( ))) E= j . \\// = na in 2049. Tr i a WC LAIN] The first goal, which includes the total D q_| =| fil (J) fs aul r | elimination of extreme poverty in the coun- | By | a Z| yuan = YS es | LAIN try, will likely be achieved within the five- etic E| Sm ti lH = NTS. = i aL | = year term of the 19th CPC National conga t=! = pn =| Seen y oan EH! fe r 1 =a = i BS ttt) LN Congress. It is the second goal that is of spe- o