China's Private Sector Shut Out of Xi's Party Congress

Corporate attendance at China’s Communist Party congress has fallen by 50% since Xi Jinping came into power, the Financial Times reported.

This year’s congress was attended by 18 delegates who hold executive roles at private groups out of a total of 2,296 party members at the Congress, which the report said was a drop from 34 private sector delegates at the 18th Congress in 2012 when Xi took charge.

Read the full report: The Financial Times.

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Alfie Habershon

Alfie is a Reporter at Asia Financial. He previously lived in Mumbai reporting on India's economy and healthcare for data journalism initiative IndiaSpend, as well as having worked for London based Tortoise Media.