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Xi Jinping’s Southern Tour Sparks Talk of Reforms

Xi Jinping, who recently took over as chief of the Chinese Communist Party, traveled last week to Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, in a replay of Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 trip which launched broad-ranging economic reforms. His trip is seen as an indication that Xi will try to implement significant changes in the way the economy is run. In the words of Bill Bishop, the Shenzhen trip shows that Xi,

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