Xi has appeared conciliatory in public, telling the state news agency Xinhua on Monday that the new trade liberalisation plan "does not go against existing free trade arrangements which are potential pathways to realise FTAAP's goals".
Shi Peihua, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, told the state news agency Xinhua that the arrangement eliminates "very long consecutive work days in weeks before or after holidays".
But even Xinhua, an official media outlet, is sceptical: except for street lamps and the occasional passing vehicle, it reported recently, "at night the base was completely dark .Many property developments outside the big cities appear to be ghost towns of this sort.
China's official news agency, Xinhua, immediately called for a new reserve currency.Such calls have been made before, during bouts of dollar weakness in the late 1970s and mid-1990s, buthehe dollar still holds the privileged position in the world's monetary system it has occupied since the second world war.
Last year reporters from the official Xinhua news agency conducted interviews along the Huai's tributaries, discovering foul-smelling oily black water, dead fish and polluted wells.
By November 11th their numbers had swollen to about 300, according to the state-owned news agency Xinhua.
Xinhua reports incorrectly that China's official poverty line is lower than the World Bank's global standard of $1.25 a day.
A few weeks later Xinhua, the government's official mouthpiece, warned that big spenders risked becoming "intoxicated with comfort" and sinking "into depravity .In this section Hail, shareholder!
People's Daily, the Communist Party's main newspaper, said that a Chinese company had helped cover the cost of the square and a new museum next to it (estimated at around $50m by Xinhua, a state news agency) in return for a cheap-rate mining concession.Land disputes between miners and Mongol herders became commonplace.
China's biggest-circulation newspaper, Reference News, ran a translation.According to Xinhua, a government news agency, the Chinese dream "suddenly became a hot topic among commentators at home and abroad".
Xinhua, a government-run news agency, in December named Chongqing as China's "happiest" city, in a hint that Mr Bo is destined for great things.In the 1990s the princelings were viewed with great suspicion by many in the party, but recently party leaders appear to have rallied around themSpecial report Where do you live?
