Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) stands during the start of the opening session of China's annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Sunday, March 5, 2017. China’s Premier Li Keqiang, as usual, delivered the government’s work report on Sunday in a nearly 100-minute speech to the legislature. To party members, and perhaps politically minded Chinese, the pickup in mentions of Mr. Xi serves as a pointed signal. As certain words proliferate in the work report, several once-important issues now appear to be fading. Use of “economy” plummeted to 64 after hovering at 80 or so in the previous three years of Mr. Xi’s administration (and in the 90s under Mr. Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao).

Source: Wall Street Journal March 05, 2017 11:23 UTC