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Sun Chunlan, China’s “Iron Lady” and the only woman in the ruling party’s Politburo, is due to step down from her post at the 20th Communist Party Congress this week. There’s no guarantee that another woman will succeed her, providing yet another example of the systemic under-representation of Chinese women…

Over its 101-year history, the Chinese Communist Party has never elected a woman to the party's top hierarchy standing committee. Women are left severely under-represented and face increasing challenges to have their say.

China’s Communist Party is holding a historic Congress at which Xi Jinping is set to clinch an unprecedented third term.

The week-long Chinese Communist Party National Congress, which begins on Sunday in Beijing, is considered the most significant event on China's political calendar. But what exactly happens there and why is this one in particular so important?

China's ruling Communist Party will reshuffle its leadership when it holds a once-in-five-years Congress starting Oct 16, with Xi Jinping widely expected to stay on for a third term as general secretary, China's senior-most position.

China's ruling party kicks off a national congress on Sunday in which Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as party boss and chief of the military.

China's Xi Jinping is widely expected to clinch a third five-year leadership at the upcoming congress of the ruling Communist Party, a mandate that would secure his stature as the country's most powerful ruler since founding leader Mao Zedong.

China's ruling Communist Party will reshuffle its leadership when it holds a once-in-five-years Congress starting Oct 16, with Xi Jinping widely expected to stay on for a third term as general secretary, China's senior-most position.

One of Xi Jinping's first moves after winning China's top job as general secretary of the Communist Party in 2012 was to reinstate regular "democratic life sessions" with fellow leaders in the 25-member Politburo, a staple of the Mao Zedong era.

BEIJING -- Who will be chosen to serve on China's Politburo Standing Committee with President Xi Jinping? The decisions will be made during the Chinese Communist Party's National Congress, scheduled to open Oct. 16.

With the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party just around the corner, Xi Jinping is seeking a third term. But the second-most powerful man in China is staring down the barrel of retirement, after a decade in Xi's shadow.