China's Xi lays out his vision as pivotal meeting begins (Kevin Conne)

China's government is coming together in Beijing and this is a major event for not only China, but the international community at large. It talks about in the article how this type of event only occurs approximately every five years. In addition, the main leader in China has also made a statement that the economy of China must be second to the government of China, and that the government will have first priority over the economy. While this sounds very bizarre from a Western way of thinking, it is also quite Chinese.  China has a tradition of not allowing itself to modernize and holding back the nation for the sake of tradition. China has a form of communism for its government. However, it has a form of free-market economy as its' economic system. Now if one were to look at Marxism, and him as being the father of communism, this makes no sense since communism is an economic system as well as a form of government, and the two are linked and cannot be separated.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/opinions/xi-address-opinion-brown/index.html