Xi’s Speech Had 89 Mentions of the ‘Environment,’ Just 70 of the ‘Economy’

What Xi's Party Congress Speech Means for Investors

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Overwhelmed by the three-hours-plus vision statement served up by Xi Jinping today? A quick word search reveals a lot.

Bloomberg Intelligence crunched the rhetoric in the Chinese-language version of the president’s speech to the 19th Communist Party congress. The results are emblematic of China’s bid to pivot away from the smokestack industries that delivered it double-digit growth as public dissatisfaction over pollution and food scandals mounts.