What you should know By Reuters

(Reuters) – China’s twentieth Communist Social gathering Congress kicks off on Sunday, with Xi Jinping poised to clinch his third five-year stint in cost – a mandate that may safe his stature because the nation’s strongest ruler since founding chief Mao Zedong.

* Little is understood about who might be promoted into which key roles on the Politburo and its seven-member Standing Committee. Listed below are among the main contenders and a few eventualities to look out for.

* Leaders face a tough time. The world’s second-largest financial system is slowing and going through a probably painful rebalancing of its investment- and property-led mannequin.

* Actual property builders particularly are delaying debt restructuring strikes till after the congress, hoping the gathering gives clues on how Beijing plans to stabilise the embattled sector.

* There are additionally questions over whether or not and the way Beijing exits it strict zero-COVID coverage, in addition to rising tensions over Taiwan and high-profile protests over a number of points this 12 months. Markets are intently watching how Beijing manages these challenges.

* In the meantime, the capital is stepping up safety and COVID curbs for the once-every-five-year occasion that brings collectively 2,300 celebration members on the huge Nice Corridor of the Individuals on Tiananmen Sq.. Authorities eliminated uncommon banners of political protest from an overpass in Beijing, photographs circulated on social media on Thursday confirmed.