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| | Issue 22 The road to the 16th party congress |
 | | The Central Committee is composed of roughly 200 party members drawn from the most important leaders in the party apparatus and from the PRC state, military, united front, and provincial hierarchies. |
 | | Although the general secretary delivers the main political report to a party congress, the political report is a consensus document that he reads in the name of the outgoing Central Committee, not a recitation of his personal political and policy views. |
 | | If party congress delegates look bored and sleepy as the general secretary delivers it aloud, it is, in part at least, because they have seen its text before - and, in the case of some delegates, several times before. |
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