BEIJING (Reuters) - The speech was long, the refreshments austere, but Zhang Weiguo, a Communist Party official from Hubei province in central China, was thrilled.
"It was strongly persuasive, infectious, cohesive, and had rally-appeal," Zhang said after Chinese President and party boss Xi Jinping gave a nearly three-and-a-half hour speech in Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People to kick off the 19th Communist Party Congress.
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