China Sets October Date for Party Congress Where Xi Jinping Can Extend Power

HONG KONG—China’s Communist Party stated it plans to carry a twice-in-a-decade congress in October as paramount chief Xi Jinping prepares to increase his maintain on energy and upend current norms in Chinese management succession.

The social gathering’s 25-member Politburo has proposed Oct. 16 as the beginning date for the social gathering’s twentieth National Congress in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency stated Tuesday. Work on the assembly was continuing easily, Xinhua stated, with out detailing a particular schedule.