Xi Jinping to tighten Communist party’s grip with overhaul of China’s government at key meeting


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Xi Jinping is preparing a profound overhaul of China’s government and party institutions at this year’s National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament, which begins its annual session on Sunday. On Tuesday, the Chinese Communist party (CCP) trailed changes of “far-reaching significance” that are expected to include a reorganisation of the bodies tasked with managing the financial and technology sectors, as well as state security. The changes will all have one goal in mind: to strengthen the party’s control. Xi is China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. At the CCP congress in October, he was anointed as party secretary...