BBCNEWS Newsday October 18, 2017
It is 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 00am in the morning in beijing, where china is digesting the detail of president xi jinpings marathon speech to the communist Party National congress. He spoke for 3. 5 hours. Among the highlights his claim that, under his leadership, chinas gdp had grown by nearly 50 in the last five years. He also said more than 1,500 reform measures had been introduced. That is nearly one for every day he has spent in office. And the president promised to build a Prosperous Society through socialism with chinese characteristics. 0ur china editor Carrie Gr...