Xi Highlights Shanghai, Li's Blue Sky Goal: Eye on Chinese Media

President Xi Jinping highlighted Shanghai in his speech to lawmakers from the city Sunday as the national legislature convened its annual session, according to People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper. China’s wealthiest metropolis should be a bridgehead in the country’s market reform push and speed up efforts to become an “international city with socialist characteristics.” Such praise by the core leader, who served as Shanghai party secretary in 2007, often foreshadows policies being implemented.