Chinese President Xi Jinping is served tea as he delivers a speech during the opening session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song
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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