In beijing would like to see winning the race for the white house. 0ur china correspondent Steve Mcdonell went to the Great Hall Of The People to try to find out. Later this year, the us announces their new president. What were the chinese comic party believe the of this equipment communist party. Its like pulling teeth. All clamouring there is a sense from the delegates that they dont want to speak out of turn when it comes to expressing an opinion on us politics. But they are worried about china us relations and they want them to improve. Good effort from Steven Mcdonald there. Lets get more on chinas Economic Vision for the future now, and its leaders have set out what theyre calling an ambitious Economic Growth target of around 5 this year. China is facing a property crisis, falling prices and high youth unemployment. Heres chinas premier li qiang on their strategy going forward. Translation these expected targets i are proposed taking into account. Both domestic and international
Up to the voters. they will be choosing councillors, all 1200 or so up for election in 32 councils across the country and in scotland, they will be using a system of proportional representation, not first past the post. they will be ranking candidates in order of preference. 0n the face of it, these elections are about local issues such as schools and bin collections in libraries and so on, but they might also tell us something about the wider political picture. what does the snp vote tell us about the current level of support for independence in scotland? how are the conservatives bearing with the partygate scandal, especially given their leader in scotland at first called for the prime minister to resign and then withdrew that demand? and what about labour, are there any signs of a revivalfor the party? and here that they used to call red clydeside. we might get some answers by friday evening. here in wales, labour has been
Past the post. they will be ranking candidates in order of preference. on the face of it, these elections are about local issues such as schools and bin collections in libraries and so on, but they might also tell us something about the wider political picture. what does the snp vote tell us about the current level of support for independence in scotland? how are the conservatives bearing with the partygate scandal, especially given their leader in scotland at first called for the prime minister to resign and then withdrew that demand? and what about labour, are there any signs of a revivalfor the party? and here that they used to call red clydeside. we might get some answers by friday evening. here in wales, labour has been the dominant force in welsh politics for the last century but in the last local elections here in 2017, its grip weakened, it lost over 100 council seats and ended up with overall control of only seven of the 22 local authorities.